This is an analysis of the poem The Dumb Creation that begins with:
Deal kindly with those speechless ones,
That throng our gladsome earth;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb acXc cdcd aefe fded ghfh cdgd XdXd afafXcfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101 111101 11010101 010101 11010100 111101 11110101 110101 11010111 010101 11111111 111111 111100001 110001 11010100 110111 00100101 011101 11110011 010001 00111101 111101 110010101 111111 01010101 010111 11011101 010101 111111110 101101 110101000 010101 11011101 110111 10110100 110101 11111101 101101 10110101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; they, no, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The author used the same words to, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Dumb Creation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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