This is an analysis of the poem News that begins with:
News from a foreign country came,
As if my treasures and my joys lay there;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccddbbeaea fgfgcchhiijjjj bkgkhhjjeefdfd alalaammllgkbk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 1011011111 11001101 1101110011 110101 10101 110111 01010100 0101 101111 11110001 101010111 10110101 010101 10110001 1001110110 11010111 01111101110 111101 0101 010111 0100010101 0111 110111 10111011 11011101 10010101 110100 11010001 1101101111 110111010 10111010111 010011 1101 110101 11110011 0110 111101 10110101 11010111 11111101 111101 11000101 1101000101 11011101 1101110101 110101 0101 010101 11010101 0101 110101 01110100 01011101 10010001 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 431
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 words and, the are repeated.
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- summary of News;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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