This is an analysis of the poem Spoils Of The Dead that begins with:
Two fairies it was
On a still summer day ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdadaebeddXdefgfgXddadadXhXhidddidcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 101101 11001 001001 01011 11101 11011 111011 101001 111111 11011 001001 01111 01001 1011 101001 10111 01101 101011 11001 01011 11010 01101 101101 11001 11001 001001 10101 11111 010110 11001 010010 11111 01111010 101001 1010110 1110001 01011 111011 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 960
- Average number of words per stanza: 187
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; they, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, the, and are repeated.
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- summary of Spoils Of The Dead;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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