This is an analysis of the poem The Grey Rock that begins with:
Poets with whom I learned my trade.
Companions of the Cheshire Cheese,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcec ecaXXfgfghXhbi bibacacacaX jijibabafbXb aaaaklklbbbbfbfb fafacf ecejcjcaaaagjgXececfjfjiXimababfjfjacacfmfmbbX hahacXchXafafefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,14,11,12,16,6,46,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 01000101 11110101 01001101 111101010 11111111 010111010 11110011 111100011 11010111 01010101 11111101 01110101 01010101 011111000 110101110 11010111 01010101 110101101 11110101 11111001 11110101 11011101 01010111 11011101 10111101 11110101 01010011 11111101 01110111 110000101 11111011 110011001 11100111 11110111 110010111 11011101 01110111 11111111 11011101 11010111 01111101 01110111 11010111 110001101 11111010 11110111 11010101 11011111 10110011 11110101 01111110 11011111 11110111 11010101 111101001 11110001 11110101 11010101 11000111 11110111 10110111 01010101 11011101 11011101 01011111 100011101 11010101 11010111 11010 101 10010101 11011101 11011101 11011011 100100001 01001011 11010101 11010101 11110101 11111111 11111111 11111111 100011111 1111110100 01011101 111001110 01111111 1101101 11000011 1011011 11110111 11011011 01011011 1011111100 11011111 11011001 11101101 11011100 11111111 11010111 11010111 11011101 001111101 11110111 11111111 11110101 11010101 11011101 11110111 00010111 01110101 110100111 010100110 110101110 110111100 101100111 00111011 11010111 01110101 10010001 11010110 110100110 11010101 111111111 011111001 11110111 11101001 00110101 11110101 11010110 110100110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 525
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 132
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; that, and, why are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, and, why are repeated.
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- summary of The Grey Rock;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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