This is an analysis of the poem Still that begins with:
I said I will find what is lowly
and put the roots of my identity...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdefgfgh biXX hajd fXfajdgejc feidXhgbaf hf Xeji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,4,4,10,10,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011010 1101010100 11 11111 1101011 010101010 01010010100 01111101 01010100 11 1001111 11111101 11110 01110 1010 0100001000 10010 100010 101001011 1110110101 1101 0110111 111010 1101011011 1001 1 01010100 11010010101 0101010011111 111010101000101 11010 11111111110 1100101010111 11001101 111010101010 11 1111101 1111010 00101 11110000111 10000011111 1110111 1010 11011110100 010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, nothing are repeated.
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- summary of Still;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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