This is an analysis of the poem The Hasteners that begins with:
The last walls of shame fell,
And we rejoiced…...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcXdd aefgbhgc hdh aiccXaaaabcaX afddf cdcchaXefcbd cjXhccc kkc lhbXh Cgc ChXhdm BBniag dbkccm IcaIddcXIgbcc nhchbehcldg fgfig cccjcXj XjfccegfdiJJJ
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,3,13,5,12,7,3,5,3,6,6,6,13,11,5,7,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011 1101 111 110100100010010 101011101 11011 1010111011 1 10100110100 011010010 11010100101 1100101 110111010101 11010 11010100100 110011110 11010011101 110 0101 101001 00101 100100101 010001010010001 101010101 011 1011 1001 1010101 10100100010 11011010010010 1101100 01011001 00100101111010 1010101010110 111011 1111010 1101011 0101001101 1101 101 1011010 1010101 10110 11101010 1111010 110101000010 10101101 1010001 1101101001 110 0111101 111101 010110110 111010011 1010110 10111010111 110101 01110101 10010010010 11110 11010111010101 0111100110 11010 10100 11110011 1111011001 10100 1111011010 01001 0010101010 11010101101011001 001101 11001 11001 101000100101 101001 101000100110 0101 1110011 10110 1011 111 1100101101 0011 1010 01010010 101001110 1010 01010101010 1101010 101 101010100 1010 0101001 11001 101010110 110100 11010011 00111111110 11110 11010101 111111 1101011101001100 11010100001010 110101 110010011010 01010001 101 11110101010 1101 11010 1101 010010010001001 100101010 01011010 01111010 010110100100 1010110101010 100110 10100100 0101101101110110 010 11101010010110 11010100101 010111101010 11010111 01001110 010111 010111 100100 100100 100100
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 149
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, we, us, fell, without, or, arab, in, dollars are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we, what, or, the, this, never are repeated.
The author used the same word after 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 us, hands, fell, cry, haste, installments, dollars, america are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word america at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Hasteners;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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