This is an analysis of the poem Easter Even that begins with:
“A little while and I shall see
His ships returned to fight for me.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bbc dd eed ee Xae ff bbf ee bbe gg bbX bb aXb ee hhe ai abijb bbhXe ikbgk cbkbb bbgXj Xeebj gbbXX gegab jfbib Xfaad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,3,2,3,2,3,2,3,2,3,2,3,2,3,2,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 01010111 11111101 11011111 10111100 11111101 01011111 10010101 11110001 11011101 11010111 11011111 11010100 10100101 11110101 11111101 01000101 01000101 11010101 01010011 11010101 11010111 111101101 11110100 01011101 111101101 01010001 11010101 01010001 01010101 11110011 01110101 01011111 11011100 11110101 11110101 11110111 01111011 10010101 010010011 1111111011 1101111101 11001001101 1011011111 1101000111 0111010001 1101010101 1111010101 11010101110 0111110011 11011101000 11011101010 0101010101 1111000101 11010111010 10111101111 11011100011 1110011100 1101110001 1110010111 0101010111 1100110101 1100110011010 1111001101 1011010001 11111100010 1011011001 010101001111 0111100101 11110111010 01110101010 1111011101 1111010111 1101011100 0101111101 0001010011 1011010101 1101011101 11110100101 1111110111 1101010011 1111010101 11010111001 1111110111 01100111010 1110010101 1100110111 1100110101 1111100101 011110101 1111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Easter Even;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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