This is an analysis of the poem Possibilities that begins with:
Ay, lay him 'neath the Simla pine --
A fortnight fully to be missed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXa acca dbbd effe daaX gffg Xha faXf hgXh ijji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,3,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 01110001 01111111 01010111 01011101 11010111 01000101 11111101 11111101 11010101 11110101 11010111 10111001 01011101 11111101 1010010111 11110101 0110101 01110101 01010100 01110111 01110001 11110101 11010111 001101010 01110101 111100101 111101001 111100101 011110010100 1101000111 11110101 11110101 011101010 11110001 11111111 11010101 01011100 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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; his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Possibilities;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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