This is an analysis of the poem The Neophyte that begins with:
To-night I tread the unsubstantial way
That looms before me, as the thundering night...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefcgcgeXehijXjkckcbebeefeffdfddadabgbglilifbfbhehealalacecbXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 71,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010001 11011101001 1101011111 1101111101 1101010101 1111011111 0011010011 0010010111 1101010111 010100100101 1011010101 0101011101 11010100111 1101010101 1100110111 1111111111 1011110101 01001010010 1101000101 11010101010 1111010111 1111110101 11110011100 10011011101 1101011101 1001010111 1001110101 1001011101 0111100101 1001011101 0101000101 1111010111 1101111101 0001010001 11110100111 10110100001 0110000101 1101010111 0100010001 1001111101 1101011101 1111011101 1111111101 0101000101 1111011101 1101111001 0110011101 1111111101 0100010111 1100110100 0101000101 1011110101 0100110111 0001000101 0111111111 1111111101 1111111101 1101000101 1111010101 00110101101 0110010101 1111111101 0001010001 1101111111 1100010101 1001010011 110010101001 1011010101 0101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1458
- Average number of words per stanza: 281
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my, its, as, of, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, my are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Neophyte;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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