This is an analysis of the poem Today that begins with:
This is To-day, a child in white and blue
Running to meet me out of Night who stilled ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccXd XcadeccbeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0001010111 1001110111 0101010011 0100010111 1101110101 1101000101 10101001101 0001010111 1101010001 01010010111 1100011111 01001010011 11110101001 01001111010 1111011101 01001100111 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Today;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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