This is an analysis of the poem Externalism that begins with:
The Greatest Writer of to-day
(With Maupassant I almost set him)...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabcXcX adadeeeX fgfghXhX ceceijij fefekbkX ddddXeaX AgagdeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010001 010011111 10100101 010101111 101010111 0100110010 11111101 0111000100 111011101 111110001 11011111 011001010 11110111 010110110 11011101 0101010100 111010101 101101110 11010101 011101110 11110101 010110010 11010101 0110110100 111011111 110101010 01010111 010101010 01011111 111101010 01011111 111101010 101110101 010101010 11010101 010100010 11010101 111101010 11010001 01111000 01110111 110111110 01010111 111101010 01110111 011011010 11111101 1110010101 01010001 111101110 11111101 111111010 10111101 110101110 11011000 010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The author used the same words said, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Externalism;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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