This is an analysis of the poem The Furies that begins with:
Not a third that walks beside me,
But five or six or more....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcXbdefgegbXhb ABhdcibdjcjbcab ABbkbjjjbkfjicfecf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111011 111111 1011111 111010101 011111 01110101 1110011 0100011001 00110111 1100111 101010110 1011101 011101100 001001010 100101 10111011 111111 1001110 110001 11011011 10101101 1101101 011101 1100101 110101 110101 011101 0101101 101110101 0101001 10111011 111111 1101111 010101 0101001 1011001 100101 100101 1111101 010111 1101001 11101101 100101 110111 1010101 110101 010111 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; or is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, a are repeated.
The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Furies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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