This is an analysis of the poem The Visitor that begins with:
Down the hill, in the field of sweet alfalfa, they're
freezing each other, the children...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa Xab Xcd Xb eXX aedXec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,2,3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001011101 10110010 1011011010 0010101 110101 0010011110 010011100 00101 1110110111 1111111001 101010111 00111111111 10100111 1000011001010 10111 01011 11110101010 1111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Visitor;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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