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.
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- summary of The Echo;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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