This is an analysis of the poem The Confirmers that begins with:
The saints are gathering at the real
places, trying tough skin on sharp...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbaXcdXeXXXXeedXcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100101 10101111 10 1000011 10100111 011 01001 111010 10011010 1010 1111 0100101 100101 0111110 01010 1010 1011110 101010 10101011 1111001 101100010 100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 581
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Confirmers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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