This is an analysis of the poem The Vain Question that begins with:
Why should we court the storms that rave and rend,
Safe at our household hearth?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbba cdcccd efeeeX egeeeg hehXhe ieiiie Xjkkkj bebbbe lelXle ciccci hfhhhf XmeeemXclcccl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011111 111111 1111001111 0101111111 1001010011 1100101 0011011101 011101 0111011101 0111010101 1111000111 111111 1101010111 111101 1111101101 1101000101 1101010101 1101010 1111010111 110111 0111110101 0111110101 1101010101 110101 1111110101 110101 1111111111 01010101010 01100111101 010101 1101010110 110101 01010100001 1001011001 1110110101 101111 11010101000 1101001 1101010111 0101000101 1011110011 010001 11010101001 110101 1111000111 0101010101 1111010101 110101 100010001001 110111 0101000100 0101010100 0111010011 111111 1111010101 110111 1111000101 1101110101 0110010101 110001 0011111111 111111 0111010101 0101111101 1101111111 110111 0100101110 010101 1101110011 1111111101 0011110101 010111 1111111101 110111 1111010101 1001110101 0101000111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, to, and, or, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, is, the, we are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Vain Question;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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