This is an analysis of the poem Solitude that begins with:
Where the mocking lyre-bird calls
To its mate among the falls... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXaaaXaaXddeeaXffbeaagghhaahhffiiaahhaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 0010101 0010111 11001001 10101010 10101010 10101100 1010101 10101001 1110101 11101000 10101001 1111100 1010100 10100111 0110101 11101010 01101010 1011001 00101000 1010101 0110101 1010101 0010100 10101010 10101110 1110101 1110101 1010001 1010101 11101001 1110101 1111101 1010111 1000101 1010101 0110101 00101001 1010111 1010001 10111010 10111010 1010101 1110100 1010101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1427
- Average number of words per stanza: 239
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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; of, for, to, leave are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, where, to, leave are repeated.
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- summary of Solitude;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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