This is an analysis of the poem Prelude that begins with:
Watching the tremulous flicker of the green
Against the open quiet of the sky,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba bc b cbc b db ded e fgf g cg cbc bab ae a XbX b hbh ij i jbj b iX iii ibi bj b jaXa iii ia X aba b iX ifi fef ei e iji X iij ib i bkb X ik iii ilil X iX igi Xig ie i eie i ai aaa aaa aa aa aba b ab ae a eae a ga gbg bc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,1,3,1,2,3,1,3,1,2,3,3,2,1,3,1,3,2,1,3,1,2,3,3,2,1,4,3,2,1,3,1,2,3,3,2,1,3,1,3,2,1,3,1,2,3,4,1,2,3,3,2,1,3,1,2,3,3,2,2,3,1,2,2,1,3,1,2,3,3,2,3,3,3,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10010010001 0101010001 1111011001 0011011111 1111110101 1111111101 1111110101 1111001111 0101011101 1011111101 11110110001 1001111101 0101110100 1011110111 1111110100 1011111101 1111110101 1101011111 0101100101 1111111101 1111011101 1001111001 1111111101 1101101101 1001010101 1111101101 1011111101 1001011111 1111011111 1101010010 1100010101 0111001100 1111001101 11011111100 1100011101 11111001111 11011100111 0111100101 11001010101 00100101001 1101101100 1001011101 1101111100 0101110111 1111110111 1101010101 1111010100 0101010111 0101010001 1101111100 0101010111 1011011101 1101110101 11001010101 1101011101 0101011111 0101101101 1101010111 1110011000 1111010001 1011111101 0010110011 1111010101 1101010100 0100110101 0100110100 1100110111 1101010101 1101010001 1101011101 1011001011 1101111100 0111001101 0111010101 11101101001 1101010111 1011011101 10111111001 1101011011 1111110101 1101111101 11001011011 1001010101 11100011111 0100010110 0011110101 1110011111 0101010101 1110011111 10010101001 0101111101 1011101101 01011011110 11011101001 10110100101 0100100100 0111011010 1011010100 1001000100 1101011111 1101000101 011110001 1101010111 01110111101 1111010011 1111010011 0011011100 1011110101 01010101001 1101010011 1100111100 0101011001 1111000101 10010110101 10011000111 0111001001 1011010101 0011110111 10010100101 01011101001 0101110011 0101000011 1101010001 1101001111 11010101011 1001010101 1011011011 1001010001 10110110101 01111001010 01001010101 001000100010 1101110101 1001111111 0011110101 1111001101 11110100111 1011110101 11110101001 0111010100 0111010101 1111111101 1111111101 0111111110 1111010101 0111110101 1111011111 0101111101 0111011111 011101011101 1111110111 0110011111 1111010101 11011011111 0111110001 1 0111110101 0111110101 1111110111 1101011111 0101111011 1110111111 1011010111 1101011001 1101111101 1101101111 0101010101 11010001111
- Amount of stanzas: 77
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 198
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; they, and, of, it, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, must are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Prelude;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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