This is an analysis of the poem The Flight that begins with:
When the grey geese heard the Fool's tread
Too near to where they lay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcac aaaa dede afaf ghgh eaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111011 110111 11010111 110101 110111010 111101 010100101 010111 10010101 101111 11110001 110111 10110111 101111 11010101 101101 10010111 0100101 11011111 010101 11011111 111101 11110101 011101 11110101 111101 1010111010 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, and 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 and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Flight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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