This is an analysis of the poem Picture Songs that begins with:
I.
A pale green sky is gleaming;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dcdc bebe bbbb X fcfc ghgh aiai X bababa bababa bjbjbj X bkbkXbkbk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,6,6,6,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0111010 010111 0111010 010111 0101110 110101 1101010 1110111 0101010 010001 0110010 010001 1011110 100101 01111010 1111111 1 100101 110111 100110111 0101111 0111001 10011110 0111101001 11001010 100101 10111111 00101001001 10100101 1 0101110 10111 0101110 10111 11101010 1011 0101110 10101 0101110 00101 11101010 1001 0101010 10101 0111110 100101 10101110 1111 1 010110110 100101 10010010 00101 1011010 1100101 11110010 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; over, waves are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, over 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.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Picture Songs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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