This is an analysis of the poem Kismet that begins with:
Into the rock the road is cut full deep,
At its low ledges village children play,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeee fbfb ghgh dXdh ieie jhjX bebf jhjh efef eXeb icic jhjh bbbb ecec ffff klkl ecec fifi amam mcmc dbdb cici eXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0001010111 1011010101 0011100101 1100101 0101010111 1101011101 1101011101 010111 1111110101 10011110101 1001010111 100111 11001110101 1101110111 1101111111 110111 0101010101 10001010001 1111110101 100111 1100100100 1001011100 0100110111 001100 1101110101 1101110101 1101110101 111111 1101011111 1101111111 1111010001 101101 1111110101 1111111101 1101110101 110011 1001111101 1110010101 1101111111 110111 1110011101 11010010011 1101011101 110101 1111111101 0101111100 1111111101 010001 0101111101 010101100011 00011001111 110111 1111010101 1111010111 11001010101 010101 1100010111 010110111 0101011101 110111 1101100001 1001010001 1101011111 011101 1011110100 1011000111 11010010101 110101 1101010111 1101110111 0101110111 1100101 1011011101 1101110011 0111110101 110111 11111101001 1001111101 1001110101 1011101 1101011101 11011101001 1101011101 101101 10111111001 1101011101 0111010100 110011 1011111101 1111010111 10110101001 111111 0101011111 1101110101 1101010001 010001 1011011111 1101110110 101101110101 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, know, ', dear are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase beyond connects the lines.
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- summary of Kismet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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