This is an analysis of the poem How It Was that begins with:
Stalking a deer I wandered deep into the mountains and from there I saw.
Or perhaps it was for some other reason that I rose above the setting...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a X b a c b c d c b d b X a d X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111010001010111 10101111010111010101 010101110101010100101010001 111001010010010010000101010 0010011101110110100100001111001101 1100101000101010100101011 0101010100010010100110010010111010011110010 10101101101010011001011001101010 010110101101011101010111010110011 01011001001101100 1101101110100101101010010011011010 101000110010010100010010101101 1100010100110 1001010101010110111011010011101101 10111011001100101101100101010 10110100100110101010001010 11111010110110010001011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 107 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 19
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, and, in, his, to are repeated.
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- summary of How It Was;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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