This is an analysis of the poem The Old Deer that begins with:
The shepherds abandoned the alpine pastures
For the warmth of the lowland valleys,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbX bcaa XXXX caX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001001110 101001110 1001011010 0110110 010100011001 0101 0111010011 10101101 00100101 11011101 100101001110110 0101000101010010 010001010101101 100101 111001010110 110010 001001011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Old Deer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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