This is an analysis of the poem Back In The Shadows that begins with:
Without truth to know to keep,
Spoken with an honest voice to speak it......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcdefgf GHib ijfjebbcb KgHeb KAgdXGhGcdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,9,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0110101 1001101010 11011 1100001 1101101 101010111 1101010110 111001 10011 1100101101 101011010 0101111101001 10111101010 1111011001 0100010 0010111 10110010011010 0101101010001 01101111 110101001 0101000101 10111 10011 1100101101 0100101 010011101001 10111 0110101 11001010 0100101001 10011 10010110101 10011 110101 111101 011010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word get at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Back In The Shadows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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