This is an analysis of the poem The Piper that begins with:
No, he never led them far away,
willing as they were to follow...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcd de bCdd aCe Xe cb cXaXccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,4,3,2,2,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101 10110010 11011 0101010 0100 110010 110 101110 101 1110010010 0111 110111 101 01010111 110101 11110011 1001110 1111 1110111 101101 0010001 01001101 110101 01001 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines land is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Piper;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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