This is an analysis of the poem The Trail-Makers that begins with:
North and west along the coast among the misty islands,
Sullen in the grip of night and smiling in the day: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XAca cccc dede dfdf agXg haha eiei gggg XAcaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010101010 1000101110001 10011000101010 1110101010101 11110001100110 1011101010101 10111010101010 1011111110100 101110111001110 1010101110101 110101010101110 1011101010101 10101010111010 1010101011101 10101011101110 001011101010001 10001010100110 1010100010111 10101010101010 110010010001111001 111010111101010 10010101110111 10110010111010 11010101011101 11101011111110 1111101111101 10101010111010 1111101110101 10111110101110 1010101110101 00101000100110 1010100010101 10111110101010 1011101111111 101111111110010 0010101111001 11110001100110 1011101010101 111011010101110 1010101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (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; with, and, of, who, we are repeated.
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- summary of The Trail-Makers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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