This is an analysis of the poem Despair that begins with:
Who is he?
A railroad track toward hell? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdcedfbgfeXagXX dXXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 0111011 101010100 011100101011 011110111 0111010010 111110101 1101110001011010 01 1111101 1111111101 111111 11101 101110011 1011110001 0101101111 101100111 10011011 11 11101101 111100 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 355
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Despair;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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