This is an analysis of the poem The Other that begins with:
The forest ended. Glad I was
To feel the light, and hear the hum...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbabdcXd efefdfgfgg hihihiaiaa cjajcjkjkk ljljijjjjj cdcdcdkdkk fjfjfjajcc amamamnmnn amamamXmcc mmmmmmimiiXekekekakcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 01011101 01110101 101101111 011010101 11111101 01110111 11101011 10101111 111110111 11011110 11111011 01101110 010010101 11110111 11010111 01110101 11111101 01010101 01011111 1101110 00110111 01111100 11010101 01111110 11110111 11111011 11111111 10110101 11011111 101100110 11001101 11011100 110101111 110101001 10010101 010001011 1110111 110100001 11011101 010010110 11100101 11010100 11011111 11001111 11011101 01011111 11111101 01011101 11110100 1110111 11110101 01111001 01110111 11111011 11010101 11110001 1110111 10101001 110111001 1110101 0111000111 01110101 1110101 11010101 11110100 10010011 01110100 110111111 11110101 11111111 11000101 0101110101 01010101 01010101 10010101 01110101 01011101 10010101 11010001 10111010 10110101 011100110 10111101 110010110 11011101 10010000 11001111 11111001 111101011 11111111 10111111 11010111 10111101 011001001 01111111 10111101 11111001 10111101 11101101 111111010 11110101 100111010 11100101 110110010 10111101 11110101 110111101 11110101 01110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, to, that, him, dark, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, of, he, i, the, that are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Other;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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