This is an analysis of the poem Our Hero that begins with:
Onward to her destination,
O'er the stream that Hannah sped,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cded fgeg hici ffff cdXd cfjf fXXX bbhb bkjk Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001010 10011101 10101010 1111101 10101010 1010011 10101010 1010111 10100110 1011101 10100010 10011001 10111010 01100101 11101010 1010101 10111011 1110101 11101010 1010101 10101010 0010111 11110110 1010101 10001110 1110011 11101010 1010101 11111111 10101110 11111010 1110101 11111010 10110001 01111110 1010101 10011110 1010101 11101010 1011111 10101010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, he are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase perish connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Our Hero;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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