This is an analysis of the poem Afoot that begins with:
Comes the lure of green things growing,
Comes the call of waters flowing -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa bbcb aaXa ddcd ccXc eeXeXcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 10101010 10100010 11111010 1010101 1010111 10100010 1000101 10111010 11100010 10100101 10111010 0010101 0100001 111010110 0010001 1010101 1110111 10001110 1000111 1010101 1010101 10101010 1010101 1110111 1010101 10101010 1010110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and, of, till are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words comes, when, till are repeated.
The author used the same word till at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Afoot;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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