This is an analysis of the poem The Secret that begins with:
WHAT says the wind to the waving trees?
What says the wave to the river?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXababccdedeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100101 11010010 110100101 1101010 11110101 0010111101 11011111 1001110 100100101 10010010 11110101 010111111 110100101 1001010 11010101 1101010 01001001001 0010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 658
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, come are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, list, come are repeated.
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- summary of The Secret;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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