This is an analysis of the poem The Refugees that begins with:
In the shabby train no seat is vacant.
The child in the ripped mask...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaacbacaaaaaacbaabaaac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010111010 010011 1101001 0010100110100 11101111110101 110100110 011100101 001110101 01010010 01110001 011100010110 11001010100 111111101 11010110 111110100100 11100110 0101001001 1011101111 1111110100010 101001101 1101111 0101000100100 010110101101 1100100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1001
- Average number of words per stanza: 179
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; in, they, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Refugees;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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