This is an analysis of the poem The White Stag that begins with:
I ha' seen them 'mid the clouds on the heather.
Lo! they pause not for love nor for sorrow,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaab Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011010 1111111110 11111010010010 10111010 1011101 101111010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The White Stag;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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