This is an analysis of the poem The Chilterns that begins with:
Your hands, my dear, adorable,
Your lips of tenderness ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb cdXdd efeff cgcgg ececc chchh Xghgg bdXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110100 110100 111110011 101011 01001 111111101 101111 01010100 111101 101111 111100111 011101 1010011111 010101 10111 01011111 010101 01010101 101101 111101 100110101 110001 101011111 110111 110101 110101111 0101010 01010101 1101001 1101110 110101100 0100111 01010101 1011001 100101 11111101 1010111 0111110 111111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, the, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Chilterns;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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