This is an analysis of the poem The Poets that begins with:

Half god, half brute, within the self-same shell,
Changers with every hour from dawn till even,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaacca dbbdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010111 1001001001110 11010001010 11010010101 1001110111 1111111101 1101010101 1101001101 1101011101 1111110101 0111010011 1001010101 1001110111 1111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, half are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word half is repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Poets;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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