This is an analysis of the poem In The Past that begins with:
There lies a somnolent lake
Under a noiseless sky,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc bbbb dXdB eaea fbfb gggg hfhf idid XagaXdbdB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 1001001 1100101 10101 11010 110101 101011010 1100101 011111 001001001 110010111 101111 101011001 0010100100 0010010101 11011 101101 01101001 10010111 00101001 1111001 110100101 100100101 1000101 111111 1110101 10100100101 1111 1100111 00101 1111001001 0111 0101111001 111101 100101101 100101 10111 11101001 1011011 001001 1110010101 11001 0100100101 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of In The Past;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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