This is an analysis of the poem The Rites Of Darkness that begins with:
The sleds of the children
Move down the right slope. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXde AfghdigabXdiXigig iXhgjajXc hXkglfkcXiXflXmadm ghkgek Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,17,9,18,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010010 11011 00110001001 01011 0101000110 110100101 010010 11110111 111111 1111 01011 0101111 10101 1010001 01010010 01111 100100011 1101101 1010111 010011 10111 1101001 110100101 11110101 1101111 010101111 1100101 101010101 101110011 01001101 10101010 101101 0100010110 011010101 10101101 01010010100 0111100001 011111101 1011011010 11100100011 01111111100 1010110010 11011111 1111101 11111101 11010101 01100101 011001010 01100111 011001001 11111111 00111 11110011 1110111 11101 11110111001 1111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, , because are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of The Rites Of Darkness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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