This is an analysis of the poem The Three Bells that begins with:
BENEATH the low-hung night cloud
That raked her splintering mast... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dbeb afXX cghg gddd XfaX giXi gbeb ejXjXjfhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111 1101001 0011010 010111 1001010 0101101 1111110 0010101 0111011 111001 1111011 111111 101010110 110101 1111011 010011 1101110 110101 1101110 011101 10100010 110101 1111110 111111 1101010 010111 1101010 011101 1101010 011101 1101110 110111 1111010 0101001 1111010 010111 1001010 010101 1101110 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Three Bells;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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