This is an analysis of the poem Young Landscape that begins with:

So the two stand almost motionless in the meadow
the girl who hangs straight down on a rope from heaven ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabXXXX XcXXXaXcccb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111000011 011111101010 101110111001 110110101010 01011111 0100100 1101111100 10101 1111110 10100101 111110101 101011101 1111010001 101001 01010011 11 1111 0100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; on, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hands is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Young Landscape;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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