This is an analysis of the poem Keeping Going that begins with:
The piper coming from far away is you
With a whitewash brush for a sporran...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXcde cbfghdXifjbkhhX fjbdhd dbXhaidhX fXfeakiXlffi hfXfcmfffmmlXfnh XglnkkdcknfdkiXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,15,6,9,12,16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010010101 001111010 100110101 1111110111 010010101111 1111111010 01011001101 10010011001 01111110101 10100111001 010111100110 10100100010 1111001101 010101011010 101001001 010101001 101101101101 10110111110 1111011010 1110010111 11011011010 0110010101 10101010101 11010010101 11000010101 10010100111 0101011101 0101111101 001010 101110 010011010011 101010100100 00101110101 11110111001 1011010111 11011011111 11111101 10111111011 11001101100 00111110110 1101010001 1111011111 1110000101 1000111111 011011111111 11111001110 11010100010 0111101100 1111001010 1101110101 1101101001 0101011011 10110101100 00111100101 1101101010 1101010011 01111101101 101010111 10011101101 1111110101 11011010011 0111110111 01010111110 11101110101 0101111011 10010001001 1110110100 11110101110 11101011110 1111010111 11101101011 11010101110 11111111010 11101011111 111101011001 00101010101 0111011111 11000010101 1100001101 0001001110 11011110111 1101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, that, his, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines face is repeated).
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- summary of Keeping Going;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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