This is an analysis of the poem Little Fugue that begins with:
The yew's black fingers wag:
Cold clouds go over....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb cXad ebfg hbff cifXcacb fhdg hbXh fecc agbb fcgj XfhX igjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 11110 10111 10011101 11110 0100000111 1111110 01001010 1110101 11101 0101010010 110110 111100 1111 00101010 10101001 1011011 1011 110110 0110011 100101 10110110 1111 111010111 011010 101100110 11100 1110010 01111 001110 1110011 00101010010 1010100 11011 110111 11010 110001010 11101110 0101 111110101 11001 11011001 11110 11100100 1010011 0110101 01011 110101110 10101 010110 111100110 011010010110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Little Fugue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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