This is an analysis of the poem On The Plains that begins with:
Half-lost in film of faintest lawn,
A single star in armour white... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccc deXefff fcfXddd gcgcaaa chcXiii Xbbbccc afafjjj ahahiii gkgkggX ijijbbbXbcbcbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01010101 01010101 1101001 1101 1101 110100101 01110101 01010111 11011111 11010101 1101 0111 1101001001 01110101 010100111 10011101 110111100 0101 11001 10010111 01011101 010010101 11010101 10110001 1101 1101 11110001 11011111 11110101 01011101 11111100 00101 101001 0010110111 1111010100 01110101 11011101 01110001 10101 0111 010100101 01110101 01010101 11000101 01110101 10101 00101 1110111101 11110101 01010101 11010101 01011101 00101 001101 0010110101 11110111 01110101 100101101 11011111 1111 11011 01110100 11111111 11111101 010000101 01010111 0101 0101 11010001 11011101 11111101 01010001 01111101 0011 1101 10010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; of, and, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, o are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of On The Plains;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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