This is an analysis of the poem To The Reader that begins with:
Folly, depravity, greed, mortal sin
Invade our souls and rack our flesh; we feed...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba caac deed fggf hiih jkkj bddb ejje aeeaXaeea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001001101 0111111111 1101100111 1101011101 1111010101 11010111010 10110100010 1011011011 1101010100 1011111101 1101011110 1110010100 1101111111 1101010101 11011010101 11100111101 1111001111 100010011111 0111110101 1111111011 11100101110 1101011011 1111110101 11011101010 01010111101 0101110100 0101011100 0111011001 1101011101 10110010111 1011111111 01111000100 1101101101 11011100111 1111010111 1001011101 01011010101 0111110101 1001000101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, and are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of To The Reader;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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