This is an analysis of the poem The Old Playhouse that begins with:
You planned to tame a swallow, to hold her
In the long summer of your love so that she would forget...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXXXXcXccXcXcXadddXddcddcbda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010010 00110011111101 10110011011011 1001001011010 1100101101010 01010111101101 111111001011100 101110110101 011001010010010 01011010001111 10001001110101 11101101101111 1110110100111 010101100100100 01110101101011 01011110110011 10110001001010 0101101001010 00110100101110 11111010111011 1100101001110 101000110110110 001011001010110 111011111011 11010111011010 1101110101010 1100101010110 1011011101111 11011010010010 0101011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1627
- Average number of words per stanza: 307
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you, my, i, and, your are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Old Playhouse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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