This is an analysis of the poem A Summons that begins with:
MEN of the North-land! where's the manly spirit
Of the true-hearted and the unshackled gone?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefghchgiXijkjkhihigigiblblhjhjbcbcamamebebejejnonohphphaha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101010 00110100101 10110111010 1101 001101010011 1011101111 11011101111 0101 1111011010 0111111101 11011111110 1001 11111101110 11110101110 110010101011 11110 11010101010 1011010101 10011111100 1101 10010001010 0101110011 10100101010 1111 11110101110 1101010101 10010101110 1101 11100101110 01010100101 00110101010 1111 00111111010 1001000101 01110001010 1111 001101001010 00110010111 00111101010 1011 01110111010 1111101101 11010101110 0101 10110101110 1010001101 11010101010 0101 11111101010 1101010101 11010101010 0101 10110101110 1001100111 11010111010 1101 11110101110 10010000101 10110101110 1011 10010100110 01111100111 11011101010 01001 11010101010 1101010101 100100110010 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2641
- Average number of words per stanza: 469
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and, her, from, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, from, for are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase now connects the lines.
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- summary of A Summons;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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