This is an analysis of the poem Approaches that begins with:
When thou turn'st away from ill,
Christ is this side of thy hill....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb XX cc dd eeXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110101 1001011 1110010 1010011 11111010 10100110 1110101 1010101 1111111 1010001 1010111 1111101 1100111 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 64
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Approaches;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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