This is an analysis of the poem The New Year that begins with:
Come you with dangers to fright us? or hazards
to try out our souls?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabacaXa XdXdbXae XdfdXgcg XbXbcefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011110 01111 111110100100 1011 11101011101 001011 111111101001 011011 11001111011 011111 010011010010010 11 1101110101101 1010 111110110110 01101 1110100101100 1001 0100101101100 1001 110011010110 11011 1101110101 1001011 11101111101 11101001 110110110110 11001 1111101111 0111001 111111011011 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, our, you, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The New Year;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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