This is an analysis of the poem Our Poets that begins with:
Those rotten volumes of eulogies and odes
With a stink far worse than of toilets rank...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXacc aXaddd acXbaX edeXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010010011 0011110101 10101110001 10100010010010 11101011010 0010001001000110 0101100110001 01111010001 10111011001 1010111010101 11001001101 111001101101 010011001011 1000111011 1011000010011 1010110101111 11101001001 1111111101 0101001101101 01101001001 11101011001 0101101101 10110111101 11011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of, and, would, if are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words causing, if are repeated.
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- summary of Our Poets;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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