This is an analysis of the poem History that begins with:
What wrecked the Roman power? One says vice,
Another indolence, another dice.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXaabXbbccddeeeXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 0101000101 101010011 1100110011 0101010101 1101010101 1100010101 11011101111 11110101010 10001101010 1101010101 1011010101 1011001111 0101000101 1100110101 1101001101 1101010101 01000101100 11010101010 11010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 839
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; says is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of History;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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