This is an analysis of the poem The Brook that begins with:
To it the forest tells
The mystery that haunts its heart and folds... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXXb aaaababXaaaabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000101 0100110111 0101010111 01101111 0100011111 11000000111 010111 000101 0100011100 0111011101 0100010001 0100010111 01011100101 100101 100111 0101011111 01000100101 11110101 0011000101 1001010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; that, and, it, of, its are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Brook;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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