This is an analysis of the poem Exile that begins with:
These hills are sandy. Trees are dwarfed here. Crows
Caw dismally in skies of an arid brilliance,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcbccada dXbeaf Xebaa XfXcXdXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011111 110001011010 01010111011 1101110111 1110110101 1100011101 101100110101 01010110111 111100101111 11110101011 11001011011 11001011111 111101011010 11110011110 1001101101 1000110111 110001010110 1001010101 01111101001 110011101001 00110100110 11101110001000 11110111111 11110111110 11110111011 1111011101 01110111111 11010101110 1101101011 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, it, as, and, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word are is repeated.
The author used the same word bring at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dew connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Exile;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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