This is an analysis of the poem The Incantation that begins with:
Scene: Federal Political Arena
A darkened cave. In the middle, a cauldron, boiling. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX X cc ddeefXXbXgee HH bbXfddhh HH iijjeegg Hh bbaekkjjee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,2,12,2,8,2,8,2,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000100010 0101001001010 100110 111101001110 1110111110 1111011111 010100111 110010111 0100101 11101010 10101110 1110001 101010010 10101000 10011010 1001101 1010101 10101010 10100010 110101110 10111010 1111001001 1010001 1010101 0010101 1110101 1010001 10001010 11111110 110101110 10111010 1100111010 10101010 1110101 1110101 1011110 0010001 1010101 1010111 110101110 110100010 1011110111 110111101 11010101 01011110 1010101 0010111 10010101 1011110 110100010 100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; witch, from, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines trouble is repeated).
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- summary of The Incantation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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