This is an analysis of the poem The One Forgotten that begins with:
A spirit speeding down on All Souls' Eve
From the wide gates of that mysterious shore...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcXdebfafXagXcbXXdggX haaaaihXjaiXeajX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011111 00110101001 1101110111 11011101100 01111101010 1101111111 0111010111 1111010101 1011010101 1001010001 0001110001 1101010101 1100110101 1101011111 0101110101 1101010101 11011100010 1111110101 1101110100 1001000111 1101010001 1101110101 11111101101 1101110111 1101010001 1101010011 1101110001 1111001101 1101111101 1101000101 1101010101 11011101010 1101001101 11010011101 1011011111 1111010111 1101010011 1111010111 1011110001 1100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 903
- Average number of words per stanza: 173
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The One Forgotten;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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