This is an analysis of the poem The Gallows that begins with:
There was a weasel lived in the sun
With all his family,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXaBaB ccccdBdB bebeabaB fcfccBcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 010100 101011001 1111101 11100111 0011001 0110011 101111 110111110 10110100 10101101010 11100110 01110111 0011001 11111001 101111 110111 10111011 11111 110101 11100111 0111011 011011 101111 110101 1111110 1010011 1111010 01111010 0011001 0110110 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word bough at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Gallows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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