This is an analysis of the poem The Doves that begins with:
Reasoning at every step he treads,
Man yet mistakes his way,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef agag hbhb agag ijij Xccc bkbkXjjjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001100111 110101 11011101 110101 11011101 110101 01010101 1101001 110010111 111001 11001101 111101 11000101 110001 11010011 111101 11111101 110111 11011101 110101 11010101 1111001 11110111 111101 11111101 111101 01010111 110101 11010110 010101 11010111 111011 11010011 110101 010100011 010111 11010101 110101 11010111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; our is repeated.
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- summary of The Doves;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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