This is an analysis of the poem Under Siege that begins with:
Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time
Close to the gardens of broken shadows, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccd efghb Xi bbjkXb lhhbXic bllbii gmnlh homil ja eb hdphX ijbbeh jj qiiqllqlllm fejl fkbh enajlpbln lebX hfaX ijbb hnkbep Xkil jjpX f Xbd pi com ibl ibamX hj bmmhbjf p X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,2,6,7,6,5,5,2,2,5,6,2,11,4,4,9,4,4,4,6,4,4,1,3,2,3,3,5,2,7,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011001101001 1001001011 1111001 110101 11011 010010111110100 111010100100 11011111010 1100110110111 0010010 1101100 11001001001 1010111 1111101 111110110011010111 11110111 110111100 11111111010 111001110 11001001 1101111111 1110011010 11011000 11110100 111 1011010111 111101010 00111010010110010 0010101101010111 11101001 0101100111101 10001010101010 01001010101 101100101001 10010110101000 011110110111 001001110100101 110111101011000 1101110100101010 111111100101 011010001 010010100 101010100010001 01110111110100 00110100011 111001001 1001011111111 101011110 1000110100011110110 1001011110 110011111011 1110 1101 110101 1000010011 0011010011001010 010101101010 111001001 0111111 01 100010001 0111111 01 10100010001 0111111 01 001000101001 11010 00110100 11011110 01001101011 1001000001011 11110110 01000101110100 1001 010010011 101010001 001001011001 1101011 1111011111 1110101 1001101 11101010 111101100010 10110101 010110111 111001111 101010101011 1111110101 110100101 001011011 01000100 001011011 111010110011 0101001100111011 110110111001 111011001010 10101000101 010010101001 1011 10100101001111 11011111 11101011111110 011010010010010 01011110111000 011101101111101 1011111101011 111011 010100111111100111111 11001111 1010011110 001110 0101010001111110101111010100 0101010110011 010010010101001 00101 10101001110110100 101010011101011011 10001110110100 010001010010100 100010 10001111101 001000011100110 10011010 11111010011111 0101001011 01010101 11110101010100 11110 10001010100 101010101 11010111 00110110011 00101001 0100011001001010101 00111010010100 0110100100110 11110100100 0101100010 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 34
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 172
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, we, i, my, you, would, have, they, us, and, be, tree, in, its, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, and, the, a, writing are repeated.
The author used the same words the, greetings 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 do, us, tree, stone, moon are repeated).
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- summary of Under Siege;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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