This is an analysis of the poem Consolation that begins with:
How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer,
wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXb bccXb debed bbXcX caXXX ffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101000010010100010 100010101001010 1110011100101 1010010010010111 11010110010100 111101110010110 11101101010010 0111010100010 1101010010010100 1011101101001101 11100010101101 101110110100 11110111101 111000001011100 1001011100101 010100010010000111 1011001011010 11110100010010 101101001 100100101011010101 1101010110111 100101101101010 1011010011010010 11101110110010 00010110001 100001101001 110110100111 1011010101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, of, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
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- summary of Consolation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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