This is an analysis of the poem The Castle that begins with:
All through that summer at ease we lay,
And daily from the turret wall...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cdccd efeef ghggh fcffc dXddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111101111 11000101 11010001 1010010101 11110111 11111101 0111100111 1100100111 11010101 110010101 11011101 11111111 01111101 11111111 10011110 11110111 110111101 11010101 01010101 01010101 111101001 11110011 01110101 010101101 110101001 11010101 10010111 11110101 11010011 111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; us, could are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gate is repeated).
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- summary of The Castle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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