This is an analysis of the poem The Ass that begins with:
I woke and rose and slipt away
To the heathery hills in the morning grey....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc aX dd ee cc ff gg XX hh ii jj ee ffXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 00100100101 0011011111 11111101 1101111001 111101001 011000101 1111100100 111101001 11101101 1110100101 0011011111 1100101101 01110101 11011101 100100101 100110111 111010111 110110111 100101000 110011111 010100101 1100011110 101001110 111110111 111100111 111101001 111100101 101111101 010100111 111011111 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, as, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Ass;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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