This is an analysis of the poem Hide And Seek that begins with:
All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still,
All the flocks of fleecy clouds have wandered past the hill;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdbbX eeffggdddX X hheedddiid ddddjjdiiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,1,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010111 1010101110101 10101010101 1010101110001 1011 1011 101101 1001 1001 10111110 11101110101 100110111111 10111010101 10111011001 1011 1011 101011 1011 1011 10111110 1 10111111101 1110101111111 10111001101 1011101111101 101 1001 11100 101 111 111111 110001110101 1011011111011 10101011111 1110101111101 101 0101 011101 1001 10001 10111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 42
- 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; all, coo, ee, long, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Hide And Seek;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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