This is an analysis of the poem The Village Saturday Night that begins with:

The damsel from the field returns,
The sun is sinking in the west;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcacdeecabXabbacfgaggcfceefabb bfeXcfe hggbh iXiffXfaeade
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,7,5,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000101 01010001 01010111 100111 0101010100 01000101 111100101 01010001 01110101 010111 11010101 001101110 11111101 10111111 1111 0001000101 01110111 01010101 01110111 1011010101 110101 01010100 100101 1100101 010101 010101 110111 110101 110101001 100101 1101000101 11110111 110101 010111 11010100 10110101 110011111 0101010101 01010101 00011111 010111 01001111001 01010111 110101 010101 01011101 100101 1101001101 01011101 1101010 110111 01001101 11010101 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; her, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Village Saturday Night;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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