This is an analysis of the poem The Threshold that begins with:
An Ode
I walked beside full--flooding Thames to--night... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccababdbd eaaeeedfdf bbbgbgeded aXahaheiei bbbababfbf haaihibdbd bbbebejbjb bbbkbkldld bllmbmakak jmncjcndnd oXdpoXokok abbdaddada jkkeXefkfk cnnfcfbXbaXpdddpdnbnb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11 1101110101 1001110111 01001010111 1001110111 0101001111 0101110101 1101011111 0101110101 10011010101 0101010100 1101100101 11001010101 1101010111 0101011111 10110110111 1001110111 10110111010 1111100101 111101110010 11010000101 1011110101 0111101111 1001010011 1001110101 1111010101 0111110101 010101011100 110000101 10110110101 1101110001 1110110101 01001010110 1100110111 1101011011 010100011001 1011010101 0101011101 1001011101 0111010101 1111101101 01000110101 0011010101 0110010101 1001111101 0111001111 0100011111 1101010111 1111110101 1001010011 0111000101 1101110001 11001110101 0011101101 1011110101 1101100111 01001100101 0111001111 001001010111 1111010111 0111011101 1111010001 0100100001001 01000011101 1111111101 1101011101 01010101101 01011101010 0101110101 10010101010 1110111011 10010101111 1100111101 1111110001 0011010111 1111010101 1111010101 1100010111 0101011101 1100010101 0101011101 1101111101 1011101111 0101010101 010010000100 1001111110 1111110100 1010011101 0111011111 0111011101 0101011101 11110101010 11010000100 01110111001 11110011101 11110101110 0101100100 0111011111 1001010111 1111100101 1011110101 10111000101 11111011100 1111010101 01010101001 1101100011 10110001110 0011011101 10100011101 1110010011 1111011111 1101010101 1011010101 1101011011 1010100001 10101001101 0100010111 0100110101 0111010111 0100110111 1101101101 111001001010 0101010101 1101111101 1101101101 100101000100 01110100101 1101100101 1101101001 1111011101 1101010101 11110100111 1001111101 1110011111 1101010111 1111110111 1111100101 1111110111 1111011111 1111010101 11001000011 1100110101 1111010101 01001011101 01110011010 01010010111 11010101010 1101101111 0100110101 10010100101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 437
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 151
- 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, thy, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, this, the, 'tis are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Threshold;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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