This is an analysis of the poem The Egoist that begins with:
He had every qualification for becoming the scourge of his family.
He was born healthy, was born wealthy, and throughout the whole of his long...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XbX Xcc dd eeb cd cXf eaXX gc eeaX fX gX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,2,3,2,3,4,2,4,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001001010100100100 11110111010101001 101000010110110010010 110100010101011011010 1110000101010100010 0110001110010001000 1100100 01000101001101010100 10010 0100011010010010110 10110010011111001010 101001001011 111100010101010100111 10000100100111100110000 10111010100111011 110000101001100101011010 00111010100010101101 11000010100011011010 1101101001011010110110 1110111111110110101 101010101 101101010100010111010 0101101011100110 0100100011001010011 10100100101011001 01100010111110100010 101 100111101111001110 100101011011110 110001010110101101 111101010110001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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; he, never, his, and, good, no, to, in, any, not, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, not are repeated.
The author used the same words he, his at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines good is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Egoist;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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