This is an analysis of the poem Poem that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdccX ecbfagcchXXXXicXfg fjcaeklcj XhhbXhgX lhfgfcldfkfgaikXchXl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,18,9,8,20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010111101 010010100 1001111111 010100110101 11011010001 10110111000 101010010100110000010 111001110100 0101010101 111101010 10110101 01010011111 111101110 11111000011 0101101101 11001110001 11011100110 1011010101 11001101110 110001 01011111001 1111011011 0101111 10010100 0101010001 10001010101 10110101110 00111110100101 0111111100 010011101010 100011101 100101001 11011001 11100111 110000111 011011010110 11000111010 1110110010 11011101 1101111101 101110101010 1111010 111111011 1101111101 010001001110 11010101010 1001111011 101000011101 110101010000 1100011111 110001001101 11010000101 1100110101 110100001 11010101 1111110001 01011111 0100110111 010101100 01010101 01011100010 11000110 0100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 525
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; i, it, life are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words two, dim, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cows is repeated).
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- summary of Poem;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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