This is an analysis of the poem A Halt that begins with:
We halted in a town the host
ordered the table to be moved to the garden the first star...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaab Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11000101 100100010010011 1111010101 1001001111 01101001101010 0110101101 11010011001 110010101 101011001010 10101 1010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 11
- 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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Halt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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