This is an analysis of the poem Blight that begins with:
Hard seeds of hate I planted
That should by now be grown,—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXb bcXcdc eadaf a afefXf baXaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,1,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 1111010 1110110 0100101 1101100 011001 1101110 110101 0111011 110111 010100101 110101 1111110 111101 0111010 110001 11110111 110001 1111010 110101 1101110 101111 111111000 110111 0111110 110101 1111111 011101 111101001 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Blight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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