This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Bells that begins with:
Year after year the artist wrought
With earnest, loving care, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb bada aefe Xaaa gbfb fdcd gded XdXd ccfc fcfc bhah aXfg dXaa hXXb Xbgb digi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 010101 01010101 010101 10110111 110101 11000111 110101 11010101 010101 11010101 110101 11011101 010101 11010111 1001001 01000101 110011 11110111 110101 11010011 110101 11010001 011001 11011101 110101 10010101 010111 11011101 011111 01110100 010111 01010101 011101 11010101 011111 110100011 010111 11010111 000101 11110111 110101 10010101 110101 10111101 110110 11010111 111101 1101000111 10111110 01010101 110101 11110111 0100110 01010100 110101 01011101 100001 01110101 110111 11111101 110011 01011101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; his, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Lost Bells;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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