This is an analysis of the poem Humanity that begins with:

I dreamed I was a sculptor, and had wrought
Out of a towering adamantine crag ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbcXXbcdeabXddfdaafbXggfXebXXXcdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010111 10010010001 0101010101 1001000101 1001010101 0011001101 0101011001 1100111101 1001000101 010101011001 1110110011 11110101001 0101010101 01000111000 1101010101 10010011001 1101010101 1101011101 1101110001 1101011101 1001000101 1111000111 01000010001 0001010101 01011000101 010110111 110101 1111 0101110101 0111000111 11010101010 1001010101 1101110101 10101010101 1111000110 0111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1540
  • Average number of words per stanza: 270
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, and, its are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Humanity;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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