This is an analysis of the poem The Curse that begins with:
Oh, lay my ashes on the wind
That blows across the sea....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcd BEfX Agbg BEfX XcXc befX bhih Xidi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 110101 11110101 1010 1101101 10011 1010110 10110 11110101 110101 11110101 10101 1101101 10011 101110 10110 1111011 110101 1111101 110101 1101101 10011 1011010 10110 1111011 111101 11010101 110111 1100110 111101 11001010 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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 and 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 The Curse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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