This is an analysis of the poem The Visit that begins with:
Askest 'How long thou shall stay?'
Devastator of the day!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbXcdcefefddegeghheehXeeeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 1000001 11101010 10101010 1010111 1100110 01101010 1000101 10100010 0010001 1110100 1010001 10100010 10100110 1010101 11111101 1110101 1011101 1110100 1010100 1011101 1010001 0110001 0010100 11110111 1010001 1010101 1011101 01010101 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 906
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word single is repeated.
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- summary of The Visit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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