This is an analysis of the poem The Plain that begins with:
I was alone with a chair on a plain
Which lost itself in an empty horizon. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bXc de ea bc fb eb Xc efe ceXb b dggXfe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,4,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001101 11010110010 0111001 1010101010111 01 0110101 111100 1010001001 0101001001 0100101100010 10100001001 111010110110 10111 11101011 1101011 01111010 0101001 0101101000 101010 111001 1111111101001001 110100 01010 101101 10111010 101100101111 1111001 111111110 11110111010111000 101001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Plain;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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