This is an analysis of the poem The Widening Spell Of The Leaves that begins with:

--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968
--for my brother...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa bcdedfgchfgicjcejhggfffckdakkfjcbkXckdfdlmeimkmhhbcdcbdakfkXkXcgknjXkodkdgckbkapgdfhXkgkhbiaidgkahkXdfooffqkdhhddcddffdkkffcfkXffeccadkhfcimcdkdrdqemnadkdfaohdgXgofggshkfkiekkodkdfcaqkdrkocekeihoiigpeijfcjshdsl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,210,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100010101 1110 1001010111001 1110101011010 1110010100010 01110010011 00101010100 1010110010101 1101001010 10110111101 110101110111 01001110100 11101011011 1000101110101 11110101111 0010011011010 10011011011 0100011111 010110101 0101011111 101001011110 011100100010 1001010101 1101011101010 010101010101 111010111 100000111 1001100100001 101111110 01100111001 11010010101 0111011111 10111101 110101010100 111111010010 0111101101 00101110111 0110010101 1001110011 10100101101011 11101010 101010011 0100010000 10110110111 1 110100100 010101111001 010101011001 001110101111 111101010101 0110111010011 110111101 101110100101 110010011101 011110 1001 010011010111 110010011010 101101001101 111111100101 10000101010 110110101111 10100011101 0111001001 1111010101 11110010111 10010010101 01011001101 000110010110 011110100 010001011010 110111111 101011111111 11001111001 0011111110 111110110010 11101010001 10110110101 101010100110 101100001010 1000011100010 10111010001 101110010101 100101111101 0101001101 11001011101 0101011011 100101010001 10101011 111010 111011101101 111001010111 1110111011 100111110 000111010011 00110110101001 110101001011 11010010111 11010111000100 0101010111 01101101101 01001100011111000 1101111011 111101110101 11001010111 100110111100 11101010111 11010101011 00101111010010 1101100101101 11111101101 1111011111 10010111001 1001101000111 1110111110 101110100101 101110101 000101011011 011101011 11011101010 110101001110 0010000110101 0110101100010 1001010101010 010001011101 001101001001 01110111110 011010001010 1011010111100 11100110001 110010010001 1111100101 101010011 11001100101 111101010 100010011001 10011001110 0111010001 111101101110 0101111011010 1101011101 01110010110 11010101010 11101111001 1011101101 101100111 1000011101 10101011101 01111110010 111011101011 001110000101 1001011101 001010111110 101001110010 110010010011 0111110001 011001011 101101011010 011111001 11110011001 1101010011 1001110101 101011110 10101011101 0001011110 011101101111 001101010101 11011010111 011111100110 10101010001 11101101101 101011010100 11001001111 0111111101 1101101011101 01100101110 1101001110101 0111011101 101001001000001 11010011001011 0100101001001 11010001001 101010101110 01100101110 01010100010 010100010101 1101010110010 0100101010101 11010110101 110001111 1111011101 01011100111 1010111111010 110010011101 101101110001 11000110011 110101011011 01001011111 0110100110101 101101101101 111101010111 0101011101 0100101011100 1101001110 11101010001 10011101010 0010101111010 01101011011100 110001011111 11110010101 11110111100 1010100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4813
  • Average number of words per stanza: 817
  • Amount of lines: 212
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; in, of, to, then, i, they, that, it, into are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, of, i, and, the, he are repeated.

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  • summary of The Widening Spell Of The Leaves;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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