This is an analysis of the poem They Who Return that begins with:
To Mrs. Weigall
Into the stricken house who steals on quiet feet...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd eded baba fbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010 000101111101 11010110101 1001010110101 110111011011 111011001001 11111010101 100101111101 10010111101 101001100101 10110110111 1110111010101 10101110101 01001010101 01001001001 1001101101 1100111111 1001111011001 101001101101 11101100111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; whose, your, you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, who, the are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of They Who Return;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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