This is an analysis of the poem Surrender that begins with:
Pale was the early day,
Fog--white the winter air,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXa cddec effde cggXc fdddf deead bddXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 110101 110111 1000101 111101 111111 110111 111011 110111 011111 1101001 010101 110111 010101 101101 110101 0101100 1111010 010101 111100 110111 111101 101111 111001 100101 1001001 011101 010101 1001101 1011101 0100111 000111 010101 110100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; my, it are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase blue connects the lines.
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- summary of Surrender;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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