This is an analysis of the poem The Congressional Library that begins with:
The earth is a colored thing.
See the red clays, and the umbers and salt greasy of the mountains;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcdbbbbdeeffcgehcicibijhXgeeeX hXcdkdijidjbbiXkXbeXkbXiajhai
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,29,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101 1011101011100010 10101100101111 01111101111 010110 101010100100100 01101010110110 010010111010 01010100110 01011101101110 0101111101000 11010101111111 1010001001 111 1111 10100101 01010 0110101 0111101 01010111 01010111 01111101 1111 1001101 1000001 10010 1100010101 1101 1111 10101101111101101 11111101 11111001 11111110111 11010100111101 1001 1101011 01101 010010100 110100000 101011100 11010100010 101011100 101011000101 11010101010 10100101110 10101000010110 10100010101110001 000100 010110 01010101000 1010101011 100110010 01011000 01000100 011001 1001 101101 1001100 01010 01001110001 111110 100001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1136
- Average number of words per stanza: 197
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, greens, of, flowers, at, all, color are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words see, the, of, and, a, color, this are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines remain, pillars are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases we, color connect the lines.
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- summary of The Congressional Library;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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