This is an analysis of the poem Dejection that begins with:
Point thy battered prow to the dark shore
Thou hoary son of Erebus, and dip thy blades...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbacXddcX eeXceecbXbcXXbbdddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010011 110101001111 00110111100 1 1111010111 100011101 110001101100 1 1101011101 1111011001 1110110100 1111010101001 111001110101 0101100100 110010111 010101011011 111101110101 1101010001 1111001101 1101011101 11 1111010101 101 11011101 1 01001110101 11010111010 1 110101010101 011011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 557
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Dejection;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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