This is an analysis of the poem The Fate Of Bass that begins with:
On the snow-line of the summit stood the Spaniard's English slave;
And the frighted condor westward flew afar---... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdedecdcXfcfcghghhhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101100101010101 10101010101 101010001010101 10101010111 1001110101110111 10111011101 111010101010101 10101010111 001010111010101 001010110101 10101001010010111 10101010101 1001000100010101 10101011101 101010101010111 101011101110 101111101010101 10111011101 1010001010101001 00111010101 101010101011111 00101111101 1110101110010101 10101010101 101010101010001 10101010101 101110101010111 11111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1626
- Average number of words per stanza: 279
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ere is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, mine, ere are repeated.
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- summary of The Fate Of Bass;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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