This is an analysis of the poem Hope that begins with:
O thrush, is it true?
Your song tells... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbaabcdcaaD DeddeXaXadA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 111 001101 01101011111 01011 01101 001001 001001 111001 001101011001 001101 001101 111 01111 0010001101111 01001 001001 0111011 101111 001011 1011011001101 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, will are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines again is repeated).
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- summary of Hope;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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