This is an analysis of the poem To Begin The Ending Of What? that begins with:
The lines for battle
Have already been drawn....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdbXXd bbbDbeafc DDDfdeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,9,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110 101001 11010 010001 10001011 1010000100 01010011 11010 111010 10101 01101 00101001 01010 1001010 1010110 101011110 1010010 00101001 00101001 00101001 001010 01 01010 11100 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, begin, ending, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines what is repeated).
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- summary of To Begin The Ending Of What?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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