This is an analysis of the poem A Concert-Impromptu that begins with:

The following impromptu was delivered in the Methodist Church Concert, March, 1883.
It was expected that several announced in bills world take...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXXccXbXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010001010100010011011 010101100010111110100 1010101101010001001100 1001010010111101111010 0111100010001101100111 10101101011001001010011 01000110110010010111 100111001100100101101 1010111110100010101000 10001001010100110101010100 001010010101101000001 0010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 934
  • Average number of words per stanza: 155
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 77 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines and is repeated).

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  • summary of A Concert-Impromptu;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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