This is an analysis of the poem The Crosses [little Lonely Crosses, The Crosses Low And White] that begins with:
The little lonely crosses, the crosses low and white,
They haunt me most in the silver hour...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXa bXbXb cXcXc dXdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010010111 1111001010 110101 11011110 0011101 0101010011101 11011111 111111 0101010 0101001 1101010110111 11011000 011101 10100010 1010101 11010001011111 01010101 1010111 010101010 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; follows, crosses are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Crosses [little Lonely Crosses, The Crosses Low And White];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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