This is an analysis of the poem A Career In Letters that begins with:
When Liberverm resigned the chair
Of This or That in college, where... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXdd eeddffgg hhddXfddiiccdX Xdjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,14,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 00110101 110111001 01101101 01000101 11010101 11000111 01010010 110101110 010011010 01110111 11111101 01010101 11110001 01111101 11010001 11010001 11011111 10010101 11010101 11110101 11111101 01010100 11011101 01011101 011101001 11110101 11010101 01000111 11011101 11000101 01111111 11000111 01000101 01110101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of A Career In Letters;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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