This is an analysis of the poem A Message that begins with:
Was there ever message sweeter
Than that one from Malvern Hill,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcdc aefedcfc ghahaiai XjXjajaX dhghXjhj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1110101 0011101010 100011101 00111010 1010101 111101010 0010001 00111010 001011 1110101010 111010001 11101010 1010101 1101110 11110111 11111010 0010111 10011110 1010101 010101010 110110111 0111110 1010001 11111000 1000101 1110101110 100010101 10101110 1110111 10111010 111100101 11100011 00101010 11111110 10011010 10101011 1110111 10111010 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word something is repeated.
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- summary of A Message;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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