This is an analysis of the poem Paralysis that begins with:
For moveless limbs no pity I crave,
That never were swift! Still all I prize,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc fgXgcc fhXhaXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111011 110011111 10111111 110101001 1011111101 0110011111 1010100111 11111011101 011110100 101101011 1110110111 1100111011 11011111 111010101 111011100 111110011 1110101111 11011001011 110101111 101101011 1010011100 1011100 110011111 110000111 101110110 0101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; i, and, your, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Paralysis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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