This is an analysis of the poem At Bay that begins with:
Wife
Reach out your arms, and hold me close and fast.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb cXcc addd ccXc aeee cXff aggg chhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1111111111 11111100011 1101011111 10 11110111100 1101110101 1111110111 1 1111110101 1111010111 1101001101 10 1111110011 110111001000 0101110111 1 110101001010 11011110001 1101011111 10 1101011101 1001110001 1101010001 1 1110111111 1111010111 1101011111 10 1110111111 11010111101 1111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; you is repeated.
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- summary of At Bay;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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