This is an analysis of the poem The Meeting that begins with:
Faces of blank decorum, and bald heads
And the drone of a voice saying what none denies;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XX bX cd bX ae bX Xf da fc ef Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010111 101001101101 1111101101 10101011010 10100111111 10111001111 100100101010 1001001010010 111011100101 11110010011 110111011010 010101001001 11010101101 001010100111 011101001001 10101001010 010000101010 100101001010 11001001111010 010010111110 11100111011 10011011010 100101010010 1001101000100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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.
The author used the same words i, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Meeting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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