This is an analysis of the poem A Tragedy that begins with:
Who's that walking on the moorland?
Who's that moving on the hill? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccb abccb abccb dbddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011 1110101 11101010 10111110 11101010101 11101011 1110101 10111010 10111110 1110110101 11101011 1110101 1011101 1110111 10111110101 11100010 1110101 1101110 11101010 11101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who's, was, what's are repeated.
The author used the same word who's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word hill at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of A Tragedy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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