This is an analysis of the poem The Centaurs that begins with:
Up came the young Centaur-colts from the plains they were
fathered in--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabab XcXc dddd cece fdgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111100110 100 1001001 111111110101100 1111001001 1011011010110 1011011 10111111110110 1001101011001 1011101001011 010111011011 01001011011111 10011101011001 1101101101101 11111001001101 11001011001001 10001001 1011011010010 111111111001 11 1011111010010110 11001101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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