This is an analysis of the poem Something that begins with:
It is something in this darker dream demented
to have wrestled with its pleasure and its pain: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001000101010 11100010101 001001111010 10100111101 001001101010 11101110111 001001101110 10100010101 100101010 11111011101 010110111 10101010001 1110110010 1111110101 00101110010 1011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; have, it, something, to, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same words it, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Something;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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