This is an analysis of the poem The Task: Book Iv. -- The Winter Evening that begins with:

Hark! ‘tis the twanging horn o’er yonder bridge,
That with its wearisome but needful length... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,52,32,74,49,24,66,41,55,37,47,40,60,46,32,89,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2021
  • Average number of words per stanza: 360
  • Amount of lines: 801
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; d, he, to, of, and, his, thy, with, i, at, all, those, her, that, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, the, and, thy, a, of, no, to, with, his, he, that are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases begs, wealth, excess connect the lines.

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  • summary of The Task: Book Iv. -- The Winter Evening;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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