This is an analysis of the poem The Invitation To Selborne that begins with:
See Selborne spreads her boldest beauties round
The varied valley, and the mountain ground, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXXXbbccddaaXabbddeeddaaffggbbheccbXXfaahhiiddaaXfccjjbbXXbbaaaabbaahhccbbffccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 82,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 0101010101 1001010101 0101010010 1001010001 0101011000 0111001111 00101011101 1001010111 10111001001 0101010101 10010111001 0101010101 0011010101 10011010110 1001010101 1101010101 1001011101 1111010111 0111100111 01010101010 11010101110 1101010111 0101000101 11011110101 1011010101 0101010101 10001111101 0101010101 0101110101 0101110101 1101010101 10011100101 10111101010 1101010101 1101010101 1001010101 0101011001 11000111100 10110111010 1101010111 1011010101 1011010101 10110010101 1001010101 1101100101 0101011101 0101010101 11010101001 11010101001 1111010101 10101010101 0011011101 0101010101 0101010101 11010010101 1101111111 11110100101 01001110001 010110100 10010010101 0101010101 1001011101 11010100111 11011010101 0111011101 0101010001 110100001001 1101010101 0101011101 11010011001 1101010101 1101111101 1101010101 1101011101 01010100001 1101011001 0101010101 1001110101 11001110101 1101010101 11011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3706
- Average number of words per stanza: 616
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; or is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or, when, might are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Invitation To Selborne;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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