This is an analysis of the poem The Spies that begins with:
Young Robin from the field in the deep shadow runs,
Singing boy, pretty maid tossing the hay, he shuns,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcaXccdd XcbXaaeeXcfXaacX cacXeeggafXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,16,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001001111 101101100111 101100001111 101100111111 101101 100101 111111 011011 100101100101 101101111101 0100101110101 101101110101 110101 101101 111110 001100 111111100101 100101101001 100101100011 111101110100 110101 101101 111101 001001 101101110111 100111100111 110101100111 110101100111 101101 0011001 101110 1001000 100101100101 110011010101 110101101101 100111111101 100111 100101 101111 1001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 539
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, her, ', of 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 Spies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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