This is an analysis of the poem Fragments that begins with:
THE wounded hart and the dying swan
Were side by side ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba bb cdaded fg hhh aiji cXjbkb Xl acfm jd en ffggmdf ggllccghh ggllh Xb iib dd h ee Xb jj gg kk dd llm hl e did n di HG gX bd lddl l XX g bii lcc aa md dii Xii dd Xla ha m oaoa h ddo Xl j dm ni bdmX daad bnkkk HG ll oX X XX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,6,2,3,4,6,2,4,2,2,7,9,5,2,3,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,1,3,1,2,2,2,2,4,1,2,1,3,3,2,2,3,3,2,3,2,1,4,1,3,2,1,2,2,4,4,5,2,2,2,1,2,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010110101 0111 10101001001 01101 1110010011 1001011111 1101011 110111 110011101 010101 10111110 110111 1101010011 1101010101 1001111111 1111010011 11011100100 011110101 110101 1100111101 111010 11011111 110111 11011111 111111 101110111 111111 10011111010 0101000111 1010101 01001110011 1001000101 1101010 1111100101 11101 11110011 1011101 11110101 00011111 110111101 01001111 110011100 11110110 11111111 111101001 01011100 111111001 11011100 11111111 11111111 101011111 01000111 01010101 110011011 11100111 111010101 11010101 11010101 010101 1111111010 01010111 11010101001 11110111011 11110101 0111110101 1101111100 10101 1001010101 10101010110 11010100101 11001101 1111110111 1111111111 1111011111 1100101111 110100111 110111 101100010001 1111111111 1011010101 01010110 0100 0101110011 11110010101 1011111111 1 1011111111 0101101101 110111111 010111101 1101110101 010101 0111011111 0011010 1101011111 1111010111 1111011 1011101 0111011 1011101 1101000101 010101010 1100100 0111001101 1111100101 1101111111 01110010101 1101111111 11010101001 1101110101 1110011101 0101111101 1001010100 010101 10101110101 1011010101 10010100001 00100110000 100001 1101100001 10100100111 10111101001 01110100101 11010011 0101010 1011011100 10010101001 1001000100 11110111 11111101 11110111 11011101 0101001101 11010101 11010101 11101001 0101001100 110101 1111010111 11001100 001001000100 1111011111 11001 1111110111 0100111111 10101111100 010101101110 0101011101 1101101101 11110001001 1101000110 11110101 111111 11110111 0111010 10110101 1101110101 010101 101001 1101000101 1110101 10111110 11101110010 111101011 111111111 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 63
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 171
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; in, i, and, of, love, long are repeated.
The author used the same words i, the, who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Fragments;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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