This is an analysis of the poem The Witnesses that begins with:
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Lads in the loose blue,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXc defe bfgf hgig XXhhh hjdj ihXh hgdg Xedgd dded cXhd XbebXagig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,5,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10011 100101 010111 0101001 1101011 10101 1101001 111011 111101 111101 1110101 0011001 011011 011001 111001 111101 1 110011 11011 111001 011101 010101 101011 10101001 011101 1011001 001101 1010110 10011 1101111 010111 101101 111101 1 110101 11101 0101110 010111 110111 110111 111111 110101 1100101 1011000 10111 0100100 0010011 111111 0010011 010111 111101 111101 11110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; or, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Witnesses;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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