This is an analysis of the poem The Poet Of Ignorance that begins with:
Perhaps the earth is floating,
I do not know....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAXbAcAdXA efghefidi XgXebbXbgddbcXb dihb Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,15,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 1111 01011101010 1111010 1111 010100101 1111 011010011 1101 1111 011111 111010 11100100 111011011 11010010 001010100100 1111100101 11001 111010100110 101100011 1001011 011 010010 11111 11110 101010101 0101 00011 110010101110 1010010011 1111111 1111 111101110 101010 11011 010101 1011110001 111100101 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; i, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
The author used the same word perhaps at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Poet Of Ignorance;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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