This is an analysis of the poem The Machine that begins with:
The little biplane that has the river-meadow for landing-field
And carries passengers brief rides,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbadedbXbcXedXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111010111101 11010011 11011010101010011 010110110 11100100111110 010 1011010 11111100101010101 101100010 01100011010101000 10000110 1100111101001001111 11011010 1100011011011101010 1101101 110010111010101100 0010100010 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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- summary of The Machine;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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