This is an analysis of the poem The Travelling Companion that begins with:
Into the silence of the empty night
I went, and took my scorned heart with me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB cbXB cbcB dbdB ebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0001000101 111111101 11010101001 1101111101 1111010101 1001011111 111110101111 1101111101 1111010101 1001111101 1101111101 1101111101 1111010101 1101010111 11001010011 1101111101 11110101001 1111010101 0001111111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, o, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Travelling Companion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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