This is an analysis of the poem The Chalk-Pit that begins with:
Is this the road that climbs above and bends
Round what was once a chalk-pit: now it is...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdXefXaafegXXghXgXdhcdfXXiefjXdfkXkjlbjijiffjliXXgidfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 58,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0001110111 1111011100 1100110100 11110101010 1101011101 111111101001 11011011101 100111001101 101101001001 1011011101010 11110011110 1111011111 11110100110 1101110101 0111010111 0101101100 110101001010 1111000101 11111110100 1101111101 1111010101 11010101001 1011001111 1101101100 01101110101 1100011101 1111010001 11110111110 1111000001 1011110011 0101111111 10100010101 1110110100 11110111010 1101110101 1101010111 0101100111 0111111111 11010100111 110111100111 011001111001 0101110100 0101011101 11110101111 1011011111 1111111101 1111010101 0101000111 1111011101 111101111101 0111111101 1111110101 1110110101 11010101011 0101011111 1111010111 11110111001 0111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2533
- Average number of words per stanza: 511
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Chalk-Pit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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