This is an analysis of the poem The Flight that begins with:
Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow,
Lift me up in your love as a light wind lifts a swallow, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011111010 11101110111010 11101011101 1101111110101 111111011101 111010011111 11101111101 1101111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
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- summary of The Flight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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