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

Of A Ballad Sung By H. Plunket Greene To His Old School
Twice three hundred boys were we,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aBaAccX dBdAeeX fBfAggX cBcAggX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101111010011 1110101 101101 1011100101 1011 111011101 110111111 10011110 101101111 101101 11011111 1011 010011101 111101101 10011110 1011100101 101101 110100101 1011 10110111 1101100111 10011110 1011100101 101101 1010100101 1011 010101101 10100101100 10011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, some, and, voice, of are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word alway 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 The Echo;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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