This is an analysis of the poem Health that begins with:
Four miles at a leap, over the dark hollow land,
To the frosted steep of the down and its junipers black,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc bde ebbXfbda gaacXhiifgiX aaciXXXdjXhfbXjgjjajc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,8,12,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011001101 00101001101001 10110101101 111110111 000110100 1001 10010100011 01111001 1111010010011 0110100 110000100101101 01 10011101011 11111101101 0111011001 111111111111 11111001001 110101111110 1111110111001 1111111011 1011011 1101011110 111010 1011110101 011110001 11011101110100010 101100101111 1111101 1001011010101 011101011 01010101100 010111000 100101010101 01010110100 111011 1110101010111 0110011100 100110100101 01001 10111001001 1110101 11101000 1101011110101 1011101 10101101 111111011111 110011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, to, i, could, with, as, be, sun are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines health, satisfied, sun are repeated).
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- summary of Health;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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