This is an analysis of the poem A Dilemma that begins with:
Filled with a zeal to serve my fellow men,
For years I criticised their prose and verges:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cdccd eXeeX cfccf gfggf XhXXh gaggX aaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001011101 101100011110 1011110001 1100011101 10111101010 1111111111 11010101010 1101011101 1001111101 11110100010 1111011001 11010111010 0101011101 1101010111 00011101110 1101111101 11010011010 1011101111 1111010111 11010101110 1111011111 01011101010 1101010111 11101110101 11111111010 1101111101 101010100010 1101011101 1101011110 100110001010 1000111111 11111100010 1101010101 1101111001 01110001100 0111010101 110100011110 1101010111 1101011101 01010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; their, and, of are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of A Dilemma;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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