This is an analysis of the poem Erskine that begins with:
A singing voice is in my dream
The voice of Erskine, on his boulders,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc aeea feef gddg heehXheeh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010011 010111010 1001101110 100101001 110111001 110111010 010101010 110101001 11110011 111111010 110100110 11010101 11010101 010101010 111101010 110101001 11110111 111101010 111101010 111100001 11110101 111100010 110011110 11011111 111100101 010101110 1111011010 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, love, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words and, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Erskine;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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