This is an analysis of the poem At School that begins with:
The bees are in the meadow
And the swallows in the sky;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcXefefXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110011 1010001 0100011 1010101 0101010 010111 0101010 1010101 1101010 10111001 10111010 011101 0101010 1010101 0101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 465
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, where are repeated.
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- summary of At School;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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