This is an analysis of the poem The Joy Of Incompleteness that begins with:

If all our life were one broad glare
Of sunlight, clear, unclouded;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcdcdeXeX bfbfbcbcgbgb gXgXbgbghchc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110111 0111100 01110111 1111010 011100101 0101010 11000101 1111110 111101110 0101110 111111110 0101010 01011101 1101110 11010111 1101010 01010101 1101010 11111101 0101010 01010111 11001010 10111101 1100010 110100111 01001110 11010101 1101011 10111101 1011010 11010101 1101110 11010101 1111110 11010001 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; we is repeated.

    The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Joy Of Incompleteness;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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