This is an analysis of the poem The Refuge that begins with:
I will lift mine eyes to the mountains,
To the mountains whence cometh my aid;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX cdcd XaXa cece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101110010 001011011 11100101010 111001 110111001 1101001 01010011011 010100 0100101011 111110101 01101010111 10101011 101011010 1010101101 1101000111110 0010001 1111010011 10111001 0100101011 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, where are repeated.
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- summary of The Refuge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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