This is an analysis of the poem The Ferryer that begins with:
Three years after my father's death
he goes back to work. Unemployed ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbacaadXeXfgbaadcXhefcghfdgcdacfcag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101101 11101101 110101101 001010111 111001011 001001111 0010010101110 01011010 0101011111 01111110001 101101101 11011001001 1101101101 10100010101001 01100101111 101010111 0111110 1001101 110101 11111110 1100011101 1101001010 0011111 111001011 1101101111 101011111 011011010 110111110 111111101 01110111 011111110 1011001 10100111111 100110110 011110101 101101101110 10110011 101010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1479
- Average number of words per stanza: 292
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; he, them, i, to are repeated.
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- summary of The Ferryer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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