This is an analysis of the poem The Piper that begins with:
AGAIN I hear you piping, for I know the tune so well, -
You rouse the heart to wander and be free,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dbdbbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101110111 1101010101 11111101010111 11101011101 11010101010111 11101110111 11111101011101 11101110011 11010101010101 11101010011 11011111110101 10101010111 11111101010111 11111110101 11111101110101 11101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, my, pipe are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dear at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Piper;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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