This is an analysis of the poem Conscious Madness (Extract From Saul) that begins with:
What ails me? what impels me on, until
The big drops fall from off my brow? Whence comes... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXcdXbcdXefabbgcXefXXhgfbchifegfbfig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111101101 0111011111 01010110010 0110111111 1111111101 11111111101 1100110111 1011000101 1101011101 1101111111 1111111111 0111100011 0111110111 1100010101 11111100111 101110001001 10101011001 1011010101 11111101110 1101010011 111111010100 11110101110 111101100 1101011101 1101010111 1101110101 110101100011 1101101110 1101010101 0101010101 10011100011 11010101101 1111101111 0101010101 0101101101 10010101010 1111111111 01110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1631
- Average number of words per stanza: 299
- Amount of lines: 38
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, here, 'tis, my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words within, of are repeated.
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