This is an analysis of the poem In The Churchyard At Cambridge. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) that begins with:
In the village churchyard she lies,
Dust is in her beautiful eyes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabba Xcacca ddbeeb ffaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101111 10001001 11111111 1011101 10100101 1110110 110100101 110100100 110100101 11010100 110010100 010110011 1111111 11010011 10010101 10110111 100100001 111110101 010111101 1010010011 010101110 11011101 011110101 011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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- summary of In The Churchyard At Cambridge. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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