This is an analysis of the poem Making Peace that begins with:
A voice from the dark called out,
"The poets must give us...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXX XXdaebd aXfX gecdf abgXdedbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,4,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0100111 110111 010100101001010 0101000101110 010010 111010 01101001 1001001001 10101 0010010 10010 1101001 010010 10100100111 011010100100 100111 0101101 0101001011110 01010010010110 101101 110 0100111001 11100101010 1100110111 111 101100001 11010 100111 00100110 001010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; of, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words imagination, can't are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Making Peace;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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