This is an analysis of the poem The Approach that begins with:

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In the Grass: Halt by the Wayside... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa bcbc daea efbf fgdg XX HIeii Xfhf fjgj bfkf iXai hfhf Xeke eaha elml HIgi i Xd dgdg laba ieXeXbmem
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,2,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,2,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 00111011 01101010 111111 110010 010111 001010 101111 1011110 111101 01111 00101 111100 00101 101010 110101 0010010 1111101 1 1011 01001110 10101 1001011 011101 111101 11001011 0101001 0111110 001101 10011100 011001 01110100 01011 0011110 111101 101110 00101 110010 110110 1111010 010101 1100111 111111 11110 011101 101100 1011 11110110 10011 100101 1001 0101101 11101 1111101 10111 1010101 1011 01001110 10101 100100010 011101 111111 1 10 1011010 1101011 101110 1100100 1011010 101001 100110 001101 0011010 001111 111011 10101 1111100 10101 01110010 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 83
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, nearer are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, i, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines while is repeated).

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  • summary of The Approach;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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