This is an analysis of the poem Columbian Ode that begins with:
I.
FOUR hundred years ago a tangled waste...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XababbcbcXdadaeaeafbfbXgcgghahaegegecec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1100010101 1101010101 11001011101 1011110111 1101010111 11000110100 1101011101 1101010001 1 1101011101 1111011101 0101111101 0101000101 0111010111 1101010101 0101100101 1101110001 1101100111 1101011101 11010010101 1101000101 1 1111001101 110100010 1101010111 0011001001 1100100111 1101001101 1101000101 0110100101 0111010101 01110110101 0111110101 1101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1100010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1611
- Average number of words per stanza: 280
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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- summary of Columbian Ode;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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