This is an analysis of the poem A Poem On The Last Day - Book I that begins with:
While others sing the fortune of the great,
Empire and arms, and all the pomp of state;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcddXeff eeeeeeggXgdd hhaahhcb iicchhggddgggggg ddjXkkhhjjiigg ddeeeegg aaddlldXXceemmjjXgccXghh gghhmm ggjjhh ccggeeaaii aaddjjggmmggeeaa nnoo aammddpp aaccee aaaannhhjjggccjjaagg ggeeooffggggbBggeeoobB eeqqff eeggjjgg jjiiX ffooggeeddbb ggppooaahh cc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,12,8,16,14,8,24,6,6,10,16,4,8,6,20,22,6,8,5,12,10,16,14,16,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010001 10011110101 01010 111110 1101010101 1101010111 0101011101 010111110100 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 1111110101 1111010001 1101110101 0101010111 0101110111 1101000101 0101110101 01111100101 11110100100 010010010111 1101010101 1101011101 1101110101 0111110101 0111010101 11011100101 01101110101 0111001101 0110111101 111100101010 11110111001 0111110101 1111110101 1111111101 100111101 0101111101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1111010011 1001010101 1001011101 1101010101 1101010101 1011111101 1101010101 1101001101 10111010111 11010101001 1101010110 1100110111 1111110101 11110010101 1101010101 1111010101 10110011101 1101011101 01010101001 1101010101 10101010101 1111110101 1101010100 1111110101 1111000101 0101110101 1101011101 1101110001 1111000101 1011001101 0101000101 01011110101 1111010111 1111100101 110011111001 1101010101 10110111010 10110101010 0111110001 1011111101 0101110101 1100010101 1100010111 1101010111 0101111001 0101010101 0101011101 0101010101 1101000101 01010101100 1001000101 01010010101 1011010101 1101011101 0111010101 1101010101 1100010001 10101000101 0101010101 11001011101 01001010101 1101010111 1101010101 11110000111 0101010011 1101111101 1101010101 1101110001 1101010011 11100001111 11001010111 0001010101 10010010011 1011010101 0111010101 01010000001 1100010101 1101011011 1101101101 0101101101 11101010101 0101010101 11010101001 1101010101 11011010111 0101011101 1101011111 1101010101 11110100101 0101010101 1101100101 01010101001 1101001111 1101110101 1101010101 01001011101 0101111101 1101000101 0111111101 0111010101 0101010111 1101110101 1101010001 1111110101 1011100101 1101010101 0101010101 1111111101 0101010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101010111 11001100101 0101010101 11110001101 1111001001 11110010111 0101110001 1101010101 0111010101 101011100001 1111100101 01010010101 11010010111 1110010001 10101001101 1100010101 1101010101 1001010101 1111111101 0101011101 1101010101 1111010101 1001011101 0101010101 1100011101 1101000101 11010100101 1111011111 1101110111 0101001101 01010111110 010010101010 1101010111 1011010011 11111100101 1101010101 1111010101 1111010001 01111111110 010010101010 0101110101 0101000101 1101110101 1101010001 1101010101 1111011101 1101001101 11110000101 0101110101 0101010101 1101010101 1001011101 01110100001 1101000101 1101010111 010100101 1101110001 0101001101 10100110 1010111111 0101110001 0101111101 1101110011 1101010101 11110010101 1111010101 1111011101 1101110101 1101111101 11110101010 11010001010 0101000101 0111010001 0101010001 1100001101 1100110101 1011010101 01011101001 1101110001 1111111001 0101111111 1101111101 1101010111 1101001101 1111010101 1111011111 01011101001 01011010101 0111011001 10101010101 1101011011 0011110101 1101010011 0101001101 0011000101 1101110101 10110101001 1101010101 11010111001 1101010111 0101011101 1111010001 1101011101 1101000101 1111110101 1111010101 1101110001 0111011101 1101011101 0111110111 1111010111 01001010101 1111000101 11011101001 0101110001 11110111001 1011010001 1011000101 1101000101 1001000101 11110010101 0101010011 1101100101 1100010001 0101010101 0111011111 1101110101 1101110101 11000101001 1101010001 0100010101 0111100101 10111101111 1001000101 1111000101 1111110101 1011110101 0101010101 0101010001 1001010110 11010010101 1101000101 1101010101 1011010101 1111010101 1101000101 1011010101 0001000101 1001010101 1101011101 11010010101 1101111101 11000111110 1011000101 0101110101 0101010111 0101010101 0101110101 0011110001
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 487
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 310
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, all, my, see, how, be, in, of, his, to, thou, their, through are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words see, here, how, ye, shall, when, the, no, their are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase shine connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of A Poem On The Last Day - Book I;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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