This is an analysis of the poem The Sign that begins with:
We are here in a wood of little beeches:
And the leaves are like black lace ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX AB cXadeX dbbceXXXAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,6,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101010 1011111 010101 110110 0101 000011110101 11010100111 100010101 011110110011001 011 1010010 1111010 001001010101 10110011 101011101 10010011101 1001001001 1011010 110110 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Sign;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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