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

The Welsh People are waiting for me
in the Childe Harold. It is 1973. The Welsh People...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc X bdedbXfebddghcXifXX X jikdbkcll X eikhdd X cj X aXaa X cffXh X dckkhajffj X XkXfhjgi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,19,1,9,1,6,1,2,1,4,1,5,1,10,1,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011011 001100010110 101011011 1 11101000110 111110100100 10011010011001 101101101010111010 111100100111110 01101101010001 1011110100011 11101101010111 100101011100110 11010111110 010101111100 110011011101 01010011010010 11011101001010 10110101001010 110101110110 101101010101001010 1001011111010 111110101101111 1 11011010110100 1000011111001010 01011011010001 1110101010110111 1100110101110110 11011011100110011 010001101001101 0111110100010 11010111111001 1 10010010001101 0101010001100 01010101100111 0100110111010 101010101101 11000110100011 1 1100110110111101 11111 1 110011011101 0100010010101 1010011100 101 1 11100010101010 1110111101100011 0110100011111 11101100110100 101100110010 1 011011000110 0100100101101010 11010010110011101 111110010111010 0111101000100010 1110111110101010 00100011001 100110110110101 1101000100101 1001010 1 011010110100100 101100100101001 010001111100110 1011000101 10001101010110 1010111001010111 111101011111 110111010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 74
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; welsh, to, all are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of The Welsh People;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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