This is an analysis of the poem The Parsonage Improved that begins with:
Where gentle Deva's lucid waters glide
In slow meanders thro' the winding vale,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbccacaccdcddefXffgfgghahaafaXfefeffafaadeXXeieiiaaaaacaccjijiiciccaeaeeieiieXegXXgaacfcffjfjjicicckckkdXdeegeggeaeaacaXcafaffefeeacacclcllafafffffffefeeieiiajaXjajaachchhghggaiaiididdicicXgcggegeggagaakekeeieiichchhchcccacaaaaaagfgffcfccgfgffafaaihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 288,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 0101010101 1011010101 10010001001 1101000101 0101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1111011111001 1101010001 1101010101 11010001001 0101010101 1101010101 010100100101 11010001001 0101010101 100101010101 1101010111 0101000101 1101010100 1101010101 1001010101 11010101010 1100010101 100101001010 1101010101010 1110000101 1111101101 11011101001 1101010101 1101011101 10010000101 1011010101 1101110011 111101010101 10010101001 1011010111 1110010101 01010001001 1011000101 100101010101 10100101001 11110100101 100101010101 0101110101 1101010101 1101000011 0101110110 011110100101 1011010101 0111010101 1011010101 110101110111 01001110101 0101010101 11010101001 01001011001 0101010101 01000110001 1001011101 01010100101 100101110101 110010101010 0101001101 01011101010 11010101001 0100011101 0100010101 1101010101 110011101001 010101010101 1010010101 10010111001 11010110101 1101010101 11010000101 1101110001 110100010101 1101110101 110101110101 10010101001 0101100101 010100101 11110100101 100110111 010010101100 01010101001 001001010101 110111010101 01101101001 0101010101 0100110101 01010101001 010111101 10010001010 01110101001 01010101010 1101010101010 11011001101 11010100101 1101010101 1100010101 10110000101 10010101001 1001010101 1101010101 1101001110101 1111010101 0101010100 11000010101 11001110101 1010110101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010111 1101010101001 1101010101 0101010101 11100010101 1011110111 110101010001 0101010101 1101010101 0101000101 101001010111 1101000101 01001010101 01101110001 1101010101 0101010101 1001011101 1111110101 010100100101 0101001010111 0111110101 1100010101 0100100101 01010101010 11010101010 0101010001 10111101010 1101001101 11010101001 0101110101 1101010101 110010100111 0101010101 1101001101 0101010101 1101010101 1111110001 1001001010101 1001111101 11100100101 11010010011 1101010101 11110010111 0101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101011100101 1111000101 010101001010 1101110101 11011101100 11010101010 1101000101 11010001010 1101010101 100101010101 1101010101 1100010101 1101000111 1111001101 110011100101 1101010101 1111110101 110010100101 110101110101 11010010001 1101000101 0101010101 1001010001 11001010101 100010100101 10001011101 1101010101 11001010101001 10110000101 1110010001 010010100111 0101000101 1101010110 11010101001 10110101001 10110010101 110101010101 01001010101 0101010101 01001111 1111010101 1101010101 01001110101 1000101011 1101100101 110001010111 1101010101 01001010101 1101111101 110011100101 0101010101 01110101001 1101010101 1101110101 110101011101 11000010001 1101010101 01010101001 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110111 11001010101 110101110101 0111010101 1101010101 01001011101 0101010101 1001010001 1101010101 1101010101 10010101001 01101010101 0110010101 1001010101 110101001001 1101000111 1101010101 100010000101 1111010001 0101010111 101101010101 1001110101 1100011101 0101110101 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101110101 0101010001 110101010101 1101100101 1101010101 1101001101 0101010101 11000101001 1100110011 1101010101 0101010001 110110110111 1011110111 0101010101 110101010001 1011010101 1101010101 1101010101 11010100110 11010010101 0111010100101 10110100101 1101010101 01010101001 1111110111 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010001 1111011100101 11110101001 1101000101 1011010101 1100110101 0100000101 0101000101 11010101001 0001010101 1101011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 12776
- Average number of words per stanza: 2127
- Amount of lines: 288
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more 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; and, no, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, here, or, his, whate'er, and, why are repeated.
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- summary of The Parsonage Improved;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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