This is an analysis of the poem The Reasons that begins with:
THEY sat before a dugout
In the unfamiliar quiet of silenced guns.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXabX dXeefX X cX gXdXX chaccXdaX ciX acbbfcXX ahdcaX Xhdec digjjeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,1,2,5,9,3,8,6,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 001010100101 111 11010 1010101 11111101 11 1111010 1001001110 11111 11010 11010 110101 001 1010 111101 111 1111010110 1110 0101100100 11111 1011011 0101 110101 1100 10011 1011 110011 110 0100101 010011 11110 1101 1110 111010101 1101 1110 111 1101 1011101 1 1111 11101010 001 11101110 10101 1101 011101010 11 11101 1000 111010 11110 01111100 1100111010 101 101101 111 101011 1
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Reasons;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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