This is an analysis of the poem The Meeting that begins with:

I see her still--by her fair train surrounded,
The fairest of them all, she took her place;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababcX cdcdcdXX efXfefgg hhihihjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011011010 0100011101 01111011010 11110011001 01111101010 11010101001 11101111010 1101010101 01110110110 0111111101 01110101010 1101001101 111110001110 1101010101 110101010010 10010111010 11011111010 1111010101 1101011111 01001000101 1111001110010 10110101101 0101010101 1111010111 0111110100 11000101010 0111010101 11011101110 1101011110 110111111010 0101011101 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, that, in, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Meeting;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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