This is an analysis of the poem To The Companions that begins with:
How comes it that, at even-tide,
When level beams should show most truth,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efXX aeae fgXg hXhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 11011111 11010101 010000101 101101110 01010111 110111010 110010101 11011101 11010101 010100100 11001000 01010101 110101001 01010101 11100101 11110111 11011101 01011101 11010101 11010111 11011101 11011101 11111000010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of To The Companions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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