This is an analysis of the poem The Murdered Traveller that begins with:
When spring, to woods and wastes around,
Brought bloom and joy again,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXea dfdf gege haha ijij efefXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101011101 111101 010100101 110101 01010111 010001 110010101 110101 01110111 0101100 11010101 010101 11110101 110111 010101101 010011 11011111 010111 110100101 011101 11110101 010111 01011111 010101 11110101 110101 11010101 1000101 11111111 010101 11110111 111111 11111101 010101 11010111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same words the, nor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Murdered Traveller;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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