This is an analysis of the poem Escape that begins with:
Tell me, Tramp, where I may go
To be free from human woe;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbab XXbbXb ccddcd Xeffef ccffcf ggccgX aahhahX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 0010101 1111101 1011101 0111111 1111101 1110101 11101010 1111111 1010001 10101000 1011101 10101101 1011101 11111001 1111111 0111101 1110110 10011101 1011101 1010101 1010001 1010101 1001101 10010101 1010101 1010101 1000101 10100001 1010001 10110101 1010101 1111101 0110101 1111111 111110100 11101001 0111101 1010011 0111101 0110111 1011111 11100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; so, go are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, go are repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Escape;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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