This is an analysis of the poem The Broken Drouth that begins with:
It seemed the listening forest held its breath
Before some vague and unapparent form... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef geXeXgfgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010010101 0111110001 0101000101 100101 0101110111 1100110101 11110101001 110101 1100110101 110111111001 0100010101 110111 1111110111 1111011101 10011100101 110101 11110011101 0101010101 1111100111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and 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.
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- summary of The Broken Drouth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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