This is an analysis of the poem Exposure that begins with:
It is December in Wicklow:
Alders dripping, birches...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa aaab XacX XdXa bcXX eXXb XcXc bfdX fXecXbaac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010010 101010 0100011 0111011 010111 10100111 110101 101001111 110110101 011111001 0111111 1011010 0100010 111010 011010 110100 1011110 1101011 100010100 1010101111 11110110 1010010 111011010 1101011 1111010 0101010 1001111100 111101 010101 11100011010 1101111 110011 0100100 10010100 011110 100111 110111 111111 01001110 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, the are repeated.
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- summary of Exposure;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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