This is an analysis of the poem The Departed that begins with:
Thou shalt lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world with kings,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdd efef Xedg fhfh acbc baba ceie jbjb gfaf klkl bkbk fdfdXdbib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 01010010101 01000010100 1111010101 101101010 111001 0010101 110010101 110101 01001110 111101 111110101 0010100 1011101 1101111 111011101 111101 1111011 010001 111100101 1010101 110111 111111 1110110101 1011101 10100101 0011101 1111011001 0010101 111111 00101010 101000101 011110010 1111110 1110111 101111011 111101 101101 1011101 1110101001 1010011 11011010 0111111 1111101101 110111 111111 11011011 10111101 111101 1111111 1011101 11110100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, fear, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word our is repeated.
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- summary of The Departed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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