This is an analysis of the poem Ulysses that begins with:
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcdefgfXhgbafchXfXebicejkikjhXaaefejacfgafcdeeaegfbXfeXfbcgfXXfjbae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 70,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011101 1011011101 1011111011 0101100101 1111111111 1101010101 1001111101 1011010101 1111011111 1101010101 1011110101 1111000101 1111111001 1101010100 1111110001 1101010011 1101010101 1101011111 110100011100 11100011101 1101110111 1100010111 01100010101 1101011111 0111010101 100111001001 0101010101 0100111100 1111011111 10110100010 0101010101 0101110101 0011111000 0111010101 1101010001 0101110011 0101011101 0100010100 1100110001 0101010101 0100010011 1101001111 1111110111 1101010101 1101111100 1111111101 1100010101 0101011101 1111111111 1111010101 1101110101 1101011101 1101011101 0101010001 0111011101 1101010111 10111010101 1111010101 0101011101 0101011101 0101010111 0101010111 0101110101 1101010111 1101010111 1111111011 11110111111 1101000101 1111111100 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3064
- Average number of words per stanza: 568
- Amount of lines: 70
- 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; i, and, of, to, life, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, the, it are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase old connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Ulysses;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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