This is an analysis of the poem The Journey that begins with:
Anghiari is medieval, a sleeve sloping down
A steep hill, suddenly sweeping out...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcade fdadd Xe fbcfgggXgX bX adbcbdhhfhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,2,10,2,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100001001101 011100101 0010011100 1110100101 110111101 0100101 110100101 11110111101 011011110 11101000101 10001000111 11010010110 11110101011 1101011110 11001100001 11110100010 11001101111 11110001001 10101000101 01101010111 110101100100 10011101001 11101010101 1110011111 0100101 101 111101001101 111101001 011110100 11000110010 001000101 101110110 0101110011010 10111101101 1011001110 01011110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 Journey;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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