This is an analysis of the poem The Return that begins with:
The grass was gray with the moonlit dew,
The stones were white as I came through;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdd ccddcdd eeffgGhhiicci hbccjjkkhhdd bbcXeecXll jjmmdd jjeejjj eegGhhbXXmmaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,13,12,10,6,7,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100111 01011111 1110110111 1010110111 111100111 1100110101 11110110111 1010100101 011101101 011101011 0110101111 110100101 101101101 101101011 1111010101 01100111101 010101101 10110101 101111101 110111111 11111101 1111111 1110101101 11011001001 11111100 010011101 0101101011 1011110100 11101011 1100100101 111100101 0100101111 0100100101 01110100101 110100101 011100101 10111101 0101001001 1010110101 10110100 1111100111 111011101 10111101001 1011100101 1110100101 10101110 1100010101 0010111001 111001111001 100101111 11110101111 11111101 010101111 1111010101 111110111 0101011011 110010101 10111111 111100101 100111101 1111100111 100100101 1110011111 110100101 11011101 110101111 11111101 1111111 101001101001 010110111 10111111 0010110111 0000101001 111111001001 1110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, and, to, my, garden, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, little, i, and are repeated.
The author used the same words the, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Return;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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