This is an analysis of the poem The Dark Valley that begins with:
n pines a migration of crows flutters away
And green evening fogs rise...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b b X b X b c X c X X b a b X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010011001 111011 1101010001 111001001 111011010 0101111 0101101 0110010101 010111 11010101010 01010101 101011000 01101001010 100101011 10101101 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 35
- Average number of words per stanza: 6
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Dark Valley;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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