This is an analysis of the poem The Ropewalk. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) that begins with:
In that building, long and low,
With its windows all a-row,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabccb ddceec fXcccc gghiih XhdhXd iiehhe jjfkkf fflXXl kkbffb iiffffXffAffa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 0010101 1011001 1010111 1011111 1010101 1011101 1011101 1011101 1010001 1110111 1011011 1010001 101110 1011001 1010101 1110111 1010111 1110001 1110101 1011101 1011101 1010101 1111101 1010100 0010111 1011101 1010101 00101000 1010101 1011011 1010011 1010001 1010101 0010111 1111001 11110010 10101010 1011111 1010101 1010101 1011001 1010101 1011111 1010101 1000101 1010100 1110001 1011001 1000101 1110101 1011111 1001101 1110101 1010001 11110011 1011101 1110101 10100111 1010101 1111101 1110101 0110111 1011111 0010101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Ropewalk. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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