This is an analysis of the poem In The Manner Of G.S. that begins with:

On Pelion among the chestnut trees the Centaur's shirt
slipped through the leaves to fold around my body...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefbXXXgac XXXgXeXfX XgfdXc eXaXXag caX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,9,6,7,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101110111 11010101110 111011011101 101110000010011101010 1100010101010 100111110101 1111001011101100 001100101 110110111010001010 110010011010100 1101101110101 01100011 11010110001000101 1111111110101010 11100101111110 1100000010011 11010101001010101 1110111010111 1110100 11111011111110101 1111100101110111 111111 1101110100111011 1110100110 1101101110110 0111011001011010110 10100101001010 1011011101001 1111110011100 1011101010010 000011101011110100 1111101011101 0100100001000 01111111010111111011111001001 01011010111 010110111 10010100001010 11011111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 426
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at, hoot are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, they, the are repeated.

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  • summary of In The Manner Of G.S.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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