This is an analysis of the poem The Shadow On The Stone that begins with:

I went by the Druid stone
That broods in the garden white and lone, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabaccbc ddedffXf eeXeggag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 110010111 11111101011 11110101 0011100101 111010100 00110111110 11111100 1100111 10111101 1111111110011 1111100011 11111101001 1010110111 1111110010 111100101 11100111 1111110101 11111111100 01111110 111110001 1100111001 1100111010 110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are 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 The Shadow On The Stone;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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