This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of Earth that begins with:
That thin denuded ghost, the winter sun,
Wrapped in pale melancholy as a shroud....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbcccddee ffgg fgggXbbXbbbhhbggg fgigjiffkXk gbbfggafajgXill jXbafgfgdd dmnmdddbbb ddaaaa oijdoidcjndnXjijgffgjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,17,11,15,10,10,6,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101010101 1011010101 111101 11100110011 1111 0101110001 010111001 110011 01110101 110101011101 10110111 110001 11110100 1010100 1011101 1000111 11010100001 0101001101001 1011100111 0101110101 11010100 110011 11001001 01001011110 1011010010011001 10111 10111 101010010101 10101 0100111 11000111 10001100 010110011 111 01011001 111101011100 1 111101 010111010100 110101 101100 01010010111 11110111 111101001 110110 1011110101 11110111 1101011011101 01001011101 1110101 110100111110 010101 1101011101 11111101100 10010111 1100 110101110100 110011011111 100101111111 1011 10110101000 1001111111 1011010101010 11011101010 1001010011 11011101110 1101010101 1101011100 1111011101 1010110110101 1111011101 0101110011 1111011101 1111111101 101101010001 1111110001 10111100101 11111111 11110101 1100110 110101001110 0111011101 1111011100 1111110101 010101011110101 111 111110100 101101 01111101 110101 1001011100 1101100101 11011101 10110100100001 010101 1101011111 1110111 110101 0110010100 10001111 1111101111 111111 111001 1100111111 1100110 10110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 106
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, sing, you, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, oh are repeated.
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- summary of A Song Of Earth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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