This is an analysis of the poem Contemplations that begins with:
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide,
2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbb X cbcbdXd X cefeggg X acaccfc X hihiXjj X ikikddd X cacaccf X adadXfX X ldldhhh X dadaddd X cmcmiii X igigihh X ilhlhhh X iaiXaaa X ededhhh X hnhnffc X hjhjddd X ogogaaa X mdmdggg X kpkpccf X oaoammm X ciciiii X adadddd X Xgagccf X ejejaaa X agagd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111000101 111010111001 10111011101 10101101101 11111110111 1010101011 1101101001001 1 11111011111 10111000101 11100011111 111011010111 11101010101 11101011101 11101111110111 1 11101011111 111001011001 11111101100 11111011001 11101011111 111011101101 1011111010011 1 111010100111 11111010101 10111011101 11101110101 11001010001 11101110100 1111101010111 1 111011011010 11101110101 101110101110 10101010011 11111000100 11101110101 1100101010101 1 11110010101 11101110011 11101011101 11101010101 11101011101 1100101111 1110101010101 1 11111010111 11111011001 11011010111 11001011101 1110101110100 11101110101 10100111001100 1 11001111111 10101111101 11101010111 10111110111 11101011101 11101111000 1111101110000 1 11101011011 10111010101 11111111011 11001001101 11101011101 11011111101 1111111011101 1 11011110101 11101010111 101110100001 11111101111 1010111001 111010011101 1101101110111 1 10101011100 111001011101 11001010101 11101000101 11101010011 10101011101 1010001101101 1 1111110011 11001010111 10101110001 11000111101 10101010101 11111010011 1010111101001 1 11111010101 11001110111 111010100101 11111111100 10101011101 11101010101 1011101001101 1 11101011111 10101110101 10101010111 111111101010 10101011101 11111011001 1111111011111 1 11101011101 10111010101 1111010111 11101010111 11001110101 10100010111 1010111110101 1 111110101010 11101110111 101010100110 11111101101 11101010100 11100110100 1110111010011 1 11101101101 11001011101 11111110101 11011011101 10101010101 111011101001 1111101100101 1 111010101011 11101111101 10111010001 11111011111 10101110111 100101111101 1111111011111 1 11111011101 11111011101 11101111111 11101011111 111111100101 11100011101 11001000010101 1 111110100101 101110111110 11111110011 101110111010 11111010111 11101110111 1111111010100 1 1100101100101 11111010101 11101010101 10101010101 11111010111 11101000101 1100111011111 1 11101011111 11001110101 11111111101 11101110101 11101111111 11101110101 1100111110111 1 11101110111 11101011111 11101010111 10101111011 11101011101 11111110001 1111101110101 1 11110010101 111110111010 11111111101 100110101010 101111111001 11101111111 1110111110100 1 11101010101 11001010111 110010010101 10111111111 11101010111 111010010101 1110011110111 1 11101010101 11101010011 10111001111 111010101001 11111010101 11111010111 1111100010111 1 11101111111 11101111011 1111111001 10110111111 11111110101 11101110101 1011101110111 1 10101011101 11101101101 11111010100 111001010101 111111101010 111010001010 11101011111010 1 11101010111 10101000111 10101010101 11101010101 101011101110 111110101100 11001010101010 1 11101010111 101010001110 10101010101 111010101010 111010101100 101010011110 11111011101010 1 10100111111 11100110101 11011010111 11101110001 11100011101 11111101101 11110111111 1 111110001010 1101111010110 111010101010 111110111110 11101011111 1110101110 1100101100100 1 11101010101 11110010101 111001001101 1110001101 111111111011 11111110111 111110100011 11111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 65
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 264
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, i, thy, and, my, their, in, her, his, we, by, nor, to, you, from, this are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Contemplations;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
Pay attention: the program cannot take into account all the numerous nuances of poetic technique while analyzing. We make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability with respect to the information.
