This is an analysis of the poem At The Play that begins with:
Just above the boxes and where the high lights fall
Looketh down a carven face from out the gilded wall....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AA bbcc ddee ffee ggXX fXffXAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010110111 1010101010101 1111100110001 1111101010011 101110111011 1011100010101 111010110101 1010101110111 1111101101110 1110101101110 111010010111 1111100011101 111011110110 1011100010101 111011110100 111010110101 101011111101 1010101010100 101010111111 1010101010100 1110011011101 10101011111 101010110111 1010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, still are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word still is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of At The Play;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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