This is an analysis of the poem The Clue that begins with:
Life from sunned peak, witched wood, and flowery dell
A hundred ways the eager spirit wooes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXbX bXbX cc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1010110111001 0101010101 0101010010 1001011101 1101110111 1101110111 1101101101 1100011000 1101110101 10110011100 1111001101 0101110101 1111111111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, so, yet, one, many are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
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- summary of The Clue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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