This is an analysis of the poem The Cure that begins with:
Long years ago, ere R--lls or R--ce
Trebled the mileage man could cover;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XababcbX dededede fgfgghgh ededdede iciccece jhjh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111111 100101110 1111111111 1111111010 10010101 0101011111 11010111 11010110 11110111 110111010 101100111 010101010 11111101 110101010 11001101 110101010 01110111 010101110 11011101 110111010 1101011001 110111010 01011101 111111010 01010101 010100110 01011100 010101001 111111001 010101110 11010111 110101010 11110111 111101110 11011111 111101110 11000101 100111010 11010101 111101010 01111111 010101011 11110001 011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; r, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word his at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Cure;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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