This is an analysis of the poem A Celebration that begins with:
A middle-northern March, now as always--
gusts from the South broken against cold winds-- ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc dXe efgXgXhafiXd bejkhaliaiajaimhkh bgen aXaXmnnXngh kecchgXXhlaafhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,12,18,4,11,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011111 1001100111 1010100111001 0110010000101 011011110 0101000111001 10100101001 110111111111 100110011101 010111100101 10100101011 1010 11111100 11101 1111 0010011001 01010100100 010100111110 1010101110 11010101011 01001001001 0001110011110 101 0011001 1101010101 1111001 0001001111001 1011101101 101001011010 0010110101 01110 111010 10101 11010111011 0011101010101 100100100100 1011001111011 1001001010 0110011 1001010111 0101110101 01010110 01101100 1001011010010010 01010 11111 111111000110 10101001110 11110111 100100110011 11111011101 01011011001 10010111110 010101111 1011011111 11 101010011 1101010011 11110101 110100011101 001001110101 11110111101 011011111 11101 1111111 100110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; darkness, this, that, march, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines march is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase time connects the lines.
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- summary of A Celebration;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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