This is an analysis of the poem The Skater that begins with:

My glad feet shod with the glittering steel
I was the god of the wingèd heel. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ff gg ff hh ff ii ee jjXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111001001 11010010001 010011101 011100111 1011101111 1010100111 11011111 1110100111 0011100101 110101101 1100111101 1010100111 0101001001 10100110111 1010011101 1101011011 1011101101 1010111111 0110101101 1100110101 10100111 1100100101 1010110101 1100100101 10011101 0010111111 1111110101 0010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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; my is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of The Skater;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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