This is an analysis of the poem The First Step that begins with:
The young poet Evmenis
complained one day to Theocritus:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXXbaXcXdeCfdedcgfXgbCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110100 01110100 100101101 110110110 01100101 11101010 0100010101 1001101011 110110100 1000101011 1010100 1001011 1111011 01101011010 111010001001 10011 001101010101 01101 1100111 01000100010 100101001 0001101000110 0101101010 110011 01101011010 1110100010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 921
- Average number of words per stanza: 164
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The First Step;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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