This is an analysis of the poem For John, Who Begs Me Not To Enquire Further that begins with:
Not that it was beautiful,
but that, in the end, there was...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcdXXXedfgXhXidacajgfhebacejXhAbahidbbajhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100 1100111 01010101 10110 0110100011 00100000010 10110 111101 1001 1011 011101 1011011 1111 1010100 10100 110001 11111 010110101 00011 010111 110110 1011111 011111 1110 101101 01101101 1011101 0101110 1010101 110011010 101010110 1011 1101100 11111101 11001010 111 00101 001011101 00100111 111101011 11010010111 101010 110110 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1169
- Average number of words per stanza: 225
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, it, my are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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- summary of For John, Who Begs Me Not To Enquire Further;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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