This is an analysis of the poem Rough Country that begins with:

Give me a landscape made of obstacles,
of steep hills and jutting glacial rock,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXabXXXaaXXcbaXcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110100 011110101 1011011101 01011100 01 1101110001 1111010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010101 111101 1101 1101011101 1101011100 0111010101 110100101 0111011111 0101011100 1101011101 1101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 789
  • Average number of words per stanza: 137
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Rough Country;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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