This is an analysis of the poem Messmates that begins with:
He gave us all a good-bye cheerily
At the first dawn of day;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabbcA cdcdbbcA efefbbca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001100 101101 1111011100 101101 00111110101 10111110101 1011011101 101111 1101011101 1010101 1101011101 11101 00111110101 10111110101 1011001101 101111 1100011101 111011 1010111101 001101 011011110101 10111110101 010001011101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines there is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word by at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Messmates;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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