This is an analysis of the poem When You Last Visited that begins with:
With the wearing of emblems and symbols,
To declare a faith and belief to profess......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXc ddXbad dX dbcbdd X XXc XXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,2,6,1,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010010110 00101101001 10111101001 1010110011001 001000101101010 01111010101001 101101010 01010110000010101 110010000110000111 10101101010101 101001001011101 10010101001101001 1111101010101 011101010001 1111 101110111010011 10010110 11110110110 110111001 010001111100101 1101011110101 1 11100 11101110100 111 111100 101011110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, been, to are repeated.
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- summary of When You Last Visited;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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