This is an analysis of the poem Earth Poem that begins with:

A dull evening in a rundown village
Eyes half asleep...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabcAadA XdXd eeeXbffcca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110001110 1101 101100 111 110101 1101 10101 010101110 10100101010 10101 1111 1111 1110 110111 11101 1110101 11101 11101010 11101 1110101 11101 11101010 111010 111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his 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 and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines heart, grief, prison are repeated).

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  • summary of Earth Poem;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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