This is an analysis of the poem The Cave Painters that begins with:
Holding only a handful of rushlight
they pressed deeper into the dark, at a crouch ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcdefe ggeffce ehfifXfj akilhblgmihedec eeffifkefXjh mXfcXblXig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,8,15,12,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010011010 11100001101 0101110 10010111 0101010 100111001 01011111011 1001010100 1101010110 01011101001 01110111 001010101011 1111011010 1010101 1010101 01011011101 101010110101 10011101111 1110110 10111110 010101101010 01010101111 10001010 01110101 0100100100 1001010 010101 10101101 0100010 00100100011110 01001010101 0100101101 101001011010 1011 101001 11101111 0110101001 11110101 1101011010 110100111 0101011110 0111010 1101010 101010100 0110101110 1101011 00101111011 1011111001 11010101 01010001 0101011 11010010 0001101 00101111 1111100 11001010 11001101101 010101011 1011110 0111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; in, and, to, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Cave Painters;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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