This is an analysis of the poem To- that begins with:
One after one, the shield, the sword, the spear,
The panoply that I was wont to wear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggcceebb hhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 0100111101 1101111111 1101010101 1111111111 11100011111 01001011101 11111100101 0111011101 11010011101 1111111111 0111100101 1101010111 1101010101 1111001111 1101010111 1111011101 1011010111 1101110111 0011110001 1111011001 10110011101 1101011110 0111000101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 537
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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- summary of To-;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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