This is an analysis of the poem The Spleen that begins with:
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape?
Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddceebbbbbfggfhXdbbh cchhiiidXddhgghXff ggbbeeXbgdfhhfdbbiii ggiiccbXgbjjjiiddiffiffggg ggffXffXXfehhefbgbffgXfkkfllXXd XXbXhhhiiffgmmbbb ffffbgfbdddnn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,18,20,26,31,17,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110111 11000111 110111111 111001010101 110010101 10111101 01010001 110101110001 100011101 01000101 1101011111 1101010101 110101010101 110111001 1101111101 11010101 01010101 010010110101 110101 11010101 1101010110 1111010001 01100101 01010001001 110101 10010111 01101101 11010101 11010100 10010001 1101010101 1101000101 110011011 11010010 0011000101 11010101 1110111 11011001 01100101 101010000101 11010100011 1101011101 110101111101 01011101 11110111 10110101 11010101 1101110101 1001110101 10011101 11110011 1101011100101 00010011101 101000101 01000101 01010101 101011101 01010101 10010111 1001000101 11011001001 1011011101 1101011100001 01010101 01010101 11010111 01110101 01011101 00010101 11010101 01000101 1101111101 010001101101 10101111101 1111110111 111101111101 1111011101 11110011 1110110101 11010101001 10010111 10111111001 11010101001 11010011101 10010101 101010001 1111111111 0101110101 0101010101 1011010101 01010101 1011000111 110101110001 01010111 10011101 01100111 10111111010 1111000101 1010110101 10010001 11010001 01010011 0101010101 10011101010 0101010101 0101011 0100010101 010111110001 11010101010 0101000101 100101110110 11110101 01010101 11010101 1101001011101 11010111 11010101 01010110 0101010101 110110010101 1111110101 011101100101 0101110101 01010101100 0101000101 1101010101 110101110111 0101110111 01110001 010100101 10110101 110111110101 11000111 01011101 01001101 1011101101 1011111101 10010101 10010111 10011101 11110101001 110101111 1101010101 010001001 111110110101 1001111011 01010111 1101110011111 01110110001 110111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 881
- Average number of words per stanza: 146
- Amount of lines: 150
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; his, thy, and, to, i, in, vain are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words before, thy, i, whilst, the, in are repeated.
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- summary of The Spleen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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