This is an analysis of the poem The Exiles' Line that begins with:
Now the new year reviving old desires,
The restless soul to open sea aspires,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaaaXa ccdc ddad eefe ggag aaXa hXXh fffF iiii eebe Xhjh bbkb ggXg hhkh aaja fffFXggbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110101010 01010101010 1011010001 101010101010 1101010111 1111111101 1101111100 1111000111 1111001111 1101001100 1101011111 11110100111 0100011101 1111010101 1101010111 1110010101 1111000101 1011110101 1101011111 11110010111 0110010011 1111010111 1101010001 0111110101 11001110101 10101110101 1101010001 0111010111 1011111101 1101010101 1101110100 0101010111 10010100111 10111101001 01001110111 1101011101 1100010101 0101100101 1011010100 1101111101 1111010111 0111110101 11110111011 1111011100 1111111100 1011110001 1111010101 1101111100 0101011111 1111110111 11111101001 1101011101 11010010101 0111011101 1011010100 11111110111 1101000111 1001110001 11010101001 1101110111 0101010101 1111010111 1101110101 01010010101 10010100111 01100101001 01001110111 1101011101 1101010111 1111111111 1101011101 0101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, of, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, not, the are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines swear is repeated).
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- summary of The Exiles' Line;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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