This is an analysis of the poem Nine Stages Towards Knowing that begins with:
Why do we lie
’Why do we lie,’ she questioned, her warm eyes... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdecff b geh ijj egc X bdg gX h a gdk dlm Xfn c fmf fmf n Xl dgX X g deffX hdh D Dbc iga agn X ba ge kh kX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,1,3,3,3,1,3,2,1,1,3,3,3,1,3,3,1,2,3,1,1,5,3,1,3,3,3,1,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1111110011 1011011010 1101100110 01110111010 11110111100 1101010101 110010011101 110110 11001 01010 01001 01110 10100 11100 10010 11101 11110 100 111111 101111 110111 111100 010100 100110 1111 111101 0010100 110111 110101 110101 110011 010111 010111 110110 10111 10111011 11100011 1000010011 1110111101 011011101 1111000111 101010 10101 11111 11011 00101 0100100 11101 1011 101111 011110 1101011 011111 010101 110101 111001 110111 01101 01101 01111 11110 10011 00111 01001 101011 00101 01001 10 10001 11101 10011 11000 11101 10001 11111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 57
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; in, by, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, in, by, and, all, able, arrived, knowledge are repeated.
The author used the same words why, and, all, able, arrived, knowledge at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines place is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase knowledge connects the lines.
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- summary of Nine Stages Towards Knowing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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