This is an analysis of the poem Elegy: Walking the Line that begins with:
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line,
The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXaeaXfgheihaiaeijdfhhbdakhalXajabXhXhahiii aihihXhhmekcmgjnejjihiohafgpbgfheXhcXeqbkn abgihgcahXaXhcfhhmmlXpchjalXrhbXehqrbpijdaoiddf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,42,47,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100111111101 010101001011 01010100101 1100010111 1111010100 1011111111 110111100100 0101011101 011110010000 0101111100 101010111110 10110100101 1101000101 1000110001 01010111010 10001011101 1100110101 11110100101 11110101010 11110101001 01010111110 1001010111 0101010100 10110111001 110011101010 11001101101 1011110111 1101010101 1011100101 0101101010100 10101001100 0101110101 0101110101 10011111010 1001101111 1110010100 1111110101 10110101110 11111100111 1101110101 11111111010 0111010001 10011001010 11010110101 0101111101 1100110111 10010100101 0100010001001 1011110100 1110010111 1100011101 011101010100 1001011101 010111010100 1101011001 0101011101 1101010101 0111011011 11010101001 10011101110 111100010011 1101110101 0111010101 01010110101 0101010101 11110101010 1011111111 111101110101 0111101000 1101110101 01010110110 10011111010 1001001001110 101110111 10010110101 1111111100 010011101110 1101011011 0101010110100 01010100011 1001110101 11010101010 10110110101 0111110101 0111111111 1101110100 1101001001 1011010101 110101101110 1101011111 11111101010 1001011101 11010010010 11011101110 11011010101 1101010110 100101101010 10001101001000 10010101010 0101111100 101100101010 1001011101 1001101110 10011000101 01110111110 010110101110 110001010110 1111010101 01011110010 1101010101 0101111101 0111010111 11010010101 010011101010 0101010101 1110101000 111011101 10010111010 0100010111 01010111100 10010101010 010101111 0101010101 1111010001 11011101011 0111110111 0111010101 10101101001 1011011110 1111111101 1101010101 1100110001 1100110101 011101100001 1011010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2013
- Average number of words per stanza: 341
- Amount of lines: 135
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, some, we, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the are repeated.
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- summary of Elegy: Walking the Line;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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