This is an analysis of the poem Bogland that begins with:
for T. P. Flanagan
We have no prairies...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXa XXXa aXde fbgf gabe hdcb deXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100 11110 01011110 10101010 100010 01000101 00110110 011110 0101001 1100100 001101 1001101 10101101 10110 110100 10101011 010101110 101100101 10011010 11000 110111 1001011 011111 1101110 10110 1001011 11101 01001001010 01100100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Bogland;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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