This is an analysis of the poem The Statues that begins with:
Tarry a moment, happy feet,
That to the sound of laughter glide!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bdbd aeae fbfb gbgb hbhb abab bgbg dddd bfbf igig biXi ibib igig ababXfdfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010101 10010101 11100101 01111111 110000101 11010111 11011101 10111001 11111011 11010101 1101101 10110101 10110101 01010101 11111111 11110101 01010101 01010101 01010101 01111101 11011011 01010001 11010101 111100001 11011101 11011101 10110101 11010101 11000101 11010101 11010101 000110001 11011001 11010101 11010101 01011101 11010101 001100101 100110101 01000011 11010001 01000101 10010101 11110101 11110001 11010001 10010101 11110001 10010101 01011101 100101010 01010101 10111111 01101101 11111101 11010101 10110101 11110101 110111001 11010001 11110111 01111001 11010111 110101101 11110111 11001101 01011101 10110001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, these are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word these is repeated.
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- summary of The Statues;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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