This is an analysis of the poem South that begins with:
I returned to a stand of pines,
bone-thin phalanx...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXdefefXagdffcaabbafffXhabgXhXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 1110 1001110 010100101001 111010100 1101110 0010111 01010101 0110101 1111001 111110 1111111 100100100 101010110 100101101 001010101 1110111 100101010 111011 1010111 0111100101 110011 1010010101 1101111 11011101 1100101100 011111100 0111011 101101100 11010001000 111111101 0101011101 010101110 01101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1650
- Average number of words per stanza: 197
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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- summary of South;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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