This is an analysis of the poem Thistle-Down that begins with:
Beyond a ridge of pine with russet tips
The west lifts to the sun her longing lips, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc bb dd aa ee XXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010101 0110010101 0101011101 0101010111 1101010101 0111110001 1101110111 1111011101 1011110101 0101010101 11001011101 0101111100 0101011101 0101110101 1101000100 1100010110 1101110011 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Thistle-Down;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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