This is an analysis of the poem Another Enemy that begins with:
Never had they known before,
Such a love to them given....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXdeXbd Abbf cegAhi ghjbcgXcfjeggjid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,4,6,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1011101 1010010 110001 10111010 11101 01000100011 01 001001 11010001 1011101 1010001 111101 10100110001 01010101101 0101011010 0010101101 1011101 0110010011010 100101010 1101101 001000 010111000010 1010110010 00101011100 1101001010 1100101 110100111 00010100 101000100110100 0010010100101 110101010011 101110100 01010101 10101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word never at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Another Enemy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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