This is an analysis of the poem Adventure that begins with:

Let us leave the hateful town
With its stale, forgotten lies;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacacaddeeaffa eeeedggXhiih aXaXjjkkllmmii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 0010101 1010101 1010111 10101110 1011101 11111010 1010101 1011101 1010101 1010111 00110001 1010100 1010101 1111101 0011101 1110101 1010101 1111101 10010101 1011101 11100110 10101110 1110100 1010111 00100110 11111011 1011111 10101010 11000101 10101110 0011100 1010101 1001101 101110010 10111110 1100101 1010100 1010111 1010101 1110101 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 428
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Adventure;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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