This is an analysis of the poem This Enlightened Age that begins with:
I Say it to myself—in meekest awe
Of Progress, electricity and steam,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbcb defegefe hifX aXff ffif gjgj hkfk lkck Xaga lmdm ffgf ggbg Xhbkb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100110101 0110110011 00010101001 1111011111 1100110101 1001010101 1100111101 0101010101 11111010101 1111110100 11110010011 1101110101 1111001101 1011110101 11110011001 1101111101 1111011101 10101110111 0111000101 0101011100 1101110111 11010101100 0100110001 1101111101 1101000101 11110111001 110010101 1011111101 1011010011 110010000101 1101000101 10110010011 1111110001 1101111101 01010000101 01001000101 1111010101 1101010111 1101010101 1111010101 1011110100 1101110101 0101001111 01010010011 1101011101 1111010101 1111011111 1101110101 1111011011 1101011001 1101110101 11011100101 0111011111 1111010011 1100111101 01110010101 111100111011 0101010101 11001110101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; not, and, their, this, when, more are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, their, what, this, when, who are repeated.
The author used the same words i, had, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of This Enlightened Age;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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