This is an analysis of the poem Silchester that begins with:
My travels' dream and talk for many a year,
At length I view thee, hoary Silchester!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcc ddee bbccff ccgghhiiXj jakkll ggkkk eeddXeaaee bbgg eeX cXlaa mmll bbXXaii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,10,6,5,10,4,3,5,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011111001 1111110100 1011110101 1011110101 110101101 1101010101 10001010101 0101000101 1101111001 1101011101 1111010111 1101010101 1101111101 1101010111 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101110101 1101011101 1101010101 0110110111 11110101001 0111011111 1111010111 110101110100 0111110100 1101111101 1101110111 1101010101 110010010101 1111110001 1101110101 1111110001 11101110101 1010010101 1001010101 110101011 111110001 1001011101 1101010011 1101110101 0101010111 1101000101 1011010101 1100111110 110101010101 01111101101 1011001101 1011111101 0101110101 0101001101 1101010100 1011110100 1101010111 1011110100 1101111100 1101010001 10010010101 011101111 1101011101 1101110001 1101111111 1101110101 0101011101 01010010010 11011111010 111101111 1111010101 01010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, its, of are repeated.
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- summary of Silchester;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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