This is an analysis of the poem The Rest that begins with:
The rest of us watch from beyond the fence
as the woman moves with her jagged stride...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbbcXddXdXaXcddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101100101 101010011 00011000011 11010010 1111111 11110111 00101011 1111010 1100010011 010010010 11010110 11111110 0100111110 101101 1010110010 111101 00110 1110110 10011010 101110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 688
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; her, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word like is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines know is repeated).
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- summary of The Rest;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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