This is an analysis of the poem Cascade that begins with:
What sort of arrow split the sky and this rock?
It's quivering, spreading like a peacock's fan...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc XXXa bbXb cXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101101 01001010101 101010111110 0010101111 111000101 10101001011 11010111010 010001101010 10111011 1100100110 110100101011 1000111 101110111 101010110111010 010101 10001010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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- summary of Cascade;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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