This is an analysis of the poem The Piper that begins with:
I will not lift the door-latch, I will not step in
From the dark fields and the starlight and the bent and whin:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaa bbcc bbbb XXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101110110 0011101110111 101011000101 111111011111 1111011011101 111111011111 1011101010111 110111010111 111101001111 101011111111 1110101010 0011110001001 11111011110 1001101011010 001011010101 1011111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, your, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Piper;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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