This is an analysis of the poem The Kosa that begins with:
The free-born Kosa still doth hold
The fields his fathers held of old;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeffXghhdd iiXXggeeiiffcceeaa eeeeaaXiaajjii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,18,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 01010101 01110101 11011101 110101110 11101010 11011111 01010101 11001001 11110101 01010101 1000101 11010101 11010101 11010101 01111101 11010101 11010101 10110101 01010101 110100101 110010101 1110101 01010101 01010101 11110111 11000101 01010111 11111111 11111001 11010101 11010101 11010101 0101001 1100100101 010101001 10110101 01100101 11101111 01100111 11010111 01011101 11010101 01010101 010101010 101101010 10110101 1110101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, on are repeated.
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- summary of The Kosa;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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