This is an analysis of the poem The Meeting that begins with:
The elder folks shook hands at last,
Down seat by seat the signal passed.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccbbbbddeeffaaXbccbbXXcXgghhffgX bbccffeeddffbbbbaXeeccii hhddbbjjffeecc kkeeffbbcc ffffgljjaaggccddccgg cckkiiaaddjjggaabbkkmmeeaann mmggooXfaXnXaaccaaffpgcciinnffaahhaagX aabbaXbbplaacceeaaqdXX jjffffjjddaajjhhffii aabbjjjjqqccfjjXjccffddddbbgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,24,14,10,20,28,38,22,20,29,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 11110101 01011101 110001101 01111111 01010101 11011101 01000111 11110101 01010111 11111111 11110101 01010101 01010101 100111101 11111111 110111010 110101110 01111101 01010101 110011100 10110001 11010011 010010101 01010001 11111111 1101010 11001000 10010111 010100100 110011101 01010101 01000101 11010101 011101011 11000101 010001001 11010100 11111111 100010100 010010101 01010111 01001101 01010101 01010111 00010100 11110101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11010111 01011101 11110100 11010101 01011101 100010100 1000001001 111100101 11010100 11011101 010100111 01010101 11110111 01010101 11010111 11011111 11001101 11100101 01011101 01011100 010010001 11001111 10111101 11010100 110111110 110100010 11110101 11010011 11010001 11010101 010100101 11001101 10010101 11111101 01111111 11111101 11010101 01010101 010001001 01011101 00110110 11010100 11000101 111100101 01110101 11111101 11110111 011000101 11010111 01110111 11111111 11111101 11110101 01010101 11010111 01001101 100101010 110101010 11011011 110101111 110100111 01000101 11110111 110001001 11011111 001010101 11001101 11010001 01011101 11000101 11111101 010001001 11001101 00011101 11010101 11011101 10010111 11010100 11010001 010101011 01010101 01010101 01110101 010001011 11110101 01010111 11010111 101101001 11010001 01100001 01011000 01111100 11010101 01010100 11010101 01010001 11110101 11010101 110011111 11011111 01010101 01011100 11010011 11010101 01010101 01010001 10011101 10110111 11011111 11011101 010010101 01010101 10011111101 10010100 10110101 01011101 01000101 10110111 11000101 010010001 01010111 11110101 11011101 11010111 11010111 01010001 11010101 111110001 11010101 11011101 11010101 001000100 01010101 111101011 11011101 01011101 11110101 010101100 111010101 010000101 110101010 01010101 10111111 11111101 10110111 01010100 11010111 0101000100 010010010 01010101 01110101 01010101 01001001 11010001 11110111 01010101 11110111 11010101 11010101 01010101 01011101 01010101 011100111 01110101 10010101 01010101 010010101 11010100 11001001 010100101 10010100 01001100 011101010 0110000010 01011101 11100101 11010101 01011101 11100001 11000100 111000100 111111110 111111110 01101001 11011001 10111101 01011001 100110101 01010101 11010111 011100011 01110111 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 840
- Average number of words per stanza: 153
- Amount of lines: 243
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, his, of, no, i, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, the, her, she, for, no, i, that are repeated.
The author used the same word 'so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Meeting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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