This is an analysis of the poem The Sound Collector that begins with:
A stranger called this morning
Dressed all in black and grey...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXb cded XfXf ecXc feXe Xgeg Ahfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 110111 110010001 110001 0100010 010001 0100010 010001 0100010 010001 1110101 010101 01000101 010001 01000010 10101 0100011 10101 1110101 010001 0100010 010001 0100010 010001 0101010 110101 111010 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Sound Collector;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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