Poem (Faithful To Your Commands, O Consciousness) by Delmore Schwartz: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Poem (Faithful To Your Commands, O Consciousness) that begins with:

Poem Faithful to your commands, o consciousness, o
Beating wings, I studied...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X a b b a X c X XXbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010010111001 101110 010101000100 0010100100100010001010 110111001000010101011100 10111110111100 1010110100111110101 11101011010110101100010 1001100100110111010100 1101101110010 0000111011100010 01010010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 67
  • Average number of words per stanza: 12
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, everything, or, to, it, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Poem (Faithful To Your Commands, O Consciousness);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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