This is an analysis of the poem Assignation that begins with:

No, No! Believe me!
I’ve come to the wrong place! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaababXcXaXbbXdeXfXXgefhiijkXjXflgcagXbemjbbhXaggXXhdcdalXkXjhmmebbl Xh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011 110011 110110011001 0111100 11011 00101101 111 11 110111 11111011 0111101001 1111 111 11101101 110101111 101111 11111111111001 111010111101 010100 11010 1101011 11101010111 111100011010101 010 10011010010111 11001 1101100 10101 111110 11111101010 10101101111111 1101 001 11001 11111100100 111111 110011001110 110111100111 10101 1011 110001001 110001110 11100101 0010101011 110100111 1101 1011 1011 10100100100 11111 110111101 001101 010001 1101100 101 101010 1010010111011 0001100 110 101010 110 01101 11 1101 11101101111 011111 111110000010 1111 1 010111001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1398
  • Average number of words per stanza: 208
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; you, here, i, s, and, wrong are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, once, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wrong is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Assignation;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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