This is an analysis of the poem Beaten Back that begins with:
BEATEN back in sad dejection,
After years of weary toil... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdcd efef ghgh eded abab gigi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101100 1000101 11101010 10111001 10111010 1110011 00101010 1010001 10101110 1110111 10101010 1110101 11110110 1011111 00100010 1011001 10011010 1110101 10111010 1011111 11101110 1011101 101001010 1111101 11101010 1010111 11111110 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, ye are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, for, on are repeated.
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- summary of Beaten Back;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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