This is an analysis of the poem The Wall that begins with:
With the cold moments of the past fleeting by,
Your wild eyes contained in your silent demeanor...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac ddefg higXfj fdXf cfhX kjda adkfbjg fae aiffjga X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,6,4,4,4,7,3,7,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00110001101 111010110010 101011 1110100101 0111101011 011111000101001 0010010011010 1111010001 1101010001011 11001001010010 11111001 01111001 11001000101 1101100111 1101010010101 001111111 111101010111 1001011011 01010011 110010111001 00100010 10110 0100101010101 11101101 01110 111101 101011 1111 110001000101 1110010010 01001001 11010001010110 110001010001 001010110100010 1101101010101 101111010011 101001 0011111011 111100001 0111001 111 11110 11110 1101011 0101101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; i, of, ll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words until, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eyes is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Wall;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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