This is an analysis of the poem A General Summary that begins with:
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From the semi-apes who ranged... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddecce fffggfhXh aXaggggg iijiij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,9,8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 0010111 10010101 1110101 1010111 1111101 100010101 1010101 1011001 101001 1010101 1110101 1110111 1110101 1000101 1001101 10101001 1010101 11100110 10001010 10101001 1111101 1011000 1101100 11010010 1110101 0110001 1010101 11101010 1010111 1110101 1110101 10100010 00101010 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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- summary of A General Summary;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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