This is an analysis of the poem On Tradition that begins with:
LINES PROVOKED BY HEARING A YOUNG MAN WHISTLING
No carmine radical in Art, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdbdb dbdbdedX fgfgeXea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111001110 11010001 11010101 11011111 01010001 110101001 110101001 01111001 111101000 111101001 01011101 11010101 10001111 11010101 1111111101 11110101 1101010100 111111001 11010111 11110111 01010001 11001111 110101100 11010111 010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of On Tradition;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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