This is an analysis of the poem The Stone Age that begins with:
Fond husband, ancient settler in the mind,
Old fat spider, weaving webs of bewilderment, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcXXadaefXfXcXXddgegXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010100001 111010100100 01111000101010 111110101 111101101001 110111111101 110100011011 111111111111 111001011001 100101011010 1111111101 010101111010 1010110101 1110101 1111 111111101011 11101111101010 010111101110101 01011101111 0111110111 11111101110 101111011101 0011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 548
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, my, me, he, ask, why are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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- summary of The Stone Age;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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