This is an analysis of the poem Skaal that begins with:
While they struggle on exhausted,
While they plough through bog and flood,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcdcXeXX XfXfghgh bcbcbfbf bhbhgaga gcgcdigi ejfjgfgf gfafbkbk befX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,8,8,8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1111111 11111110 1011101 10111010 1010111 11111110 1011011 10100010 1110011 11111011 1101111 11101110 1011001 10101010 1010101 11101011 1110101 11111110 1110101 10101010 1010111 10101110 1010111 10101110 1011111 10111010 1110101 10101010 0110001 001110010 1010001 10101010 1010111 10101010 1011111 10101010 1110101 10111010 1010001 11101010 1110101 11101010 1110101 11111110 0011001 10101111 1011101 10111010 10010101 10111010 1001101 11101010 1110101 10111011 0010101 11101110 1011101 1001011110 1010111 11110010 10100101 10100010 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; they, while, and, in, we, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words while, and, we are repeated.
The author used the same word while at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases burned, reckon connect the lines.
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- summary of Skaal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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