This is an analysis of the poem Cast Off that begins with:
The ones who kept their faith,
To get up off their knees......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbX AcXXcdbbX DbDbDE XXCDbDbDECXcXX DbDbDEXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,6,14,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 011111 11100010 1010001 011111 0111111 1000 111111 0111111 1011 0011 1111111 01111101 1011 010 1011 010 1011 01111100 1000 111111 111111101 1011 010 1011 010 1011 01111100 111111101 1010 11111101 1 11111011 1011 010 1011 010 1011 01111100 01111100 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, off are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Cast Off;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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