This is an analysis of the poem The Fallen that begins with:
Those we have loved the dearest,
The bravest and the best,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXbcbXaXacdedeXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 010101 1100010 010101 1101010 110101 1101010 1010101 1100110 100111 0101010 010101 1100110 010101 0101010 110001 1101010 0111001 1001111 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 546
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase valor connects the lines.
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- summary of The Fallen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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