This is an analysis of the poem A Hillside Thaw that begins with:

To think to know the country and now know
The hillside on the day the sun lets go...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabccbcdeeddfcXc dghgdihhijhkfjXkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010111 0111010111 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 0110110001 1001110101 1011010101 1011010101 1111010101 1111110101 1111111111 0101010101 00010001010 1111000101 1100101001110 1111111101 01011001010 1111110101 0011110101 1100010111 110111001010 1101111101 0111110111 0111010101 1111011101 01001110001 0111011101 01110111111 0111110110 1111010101 0101011011 11010101001 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 723
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • 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; them, and, wet, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in, the are repeated.

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  • summary of A Hillside Thaw;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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