This is an analysis of the poem Across that begins with:
Across these miles I wish you well.
May nothing haunt your heart but sleep....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101111 11011111 11111111 11111111 111101001 11011111 10011111 01011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; you, may are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word may is repeated.
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- summary of Across;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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