This is an analysis of the poem The Meeting that begins with:
After a length of summer miles
I met my old love on the road.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab c dcd eb eb fcf c fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,3,2,2,3,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100101010 11111101 100100001 10111111 11010011 11110101 01111111 01011101 11110101 11111101 00110101 01010111 01011011 00110101 01011101 01110101 10110111 01110001 11110111 11001101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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; her is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of The Meeting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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