This is an analysis of the poem The Soul that begins with:
All my mind has sat in state,
Pond'ring on the deathless Soul:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cccc dcce fccf abXa eXge hggX diie ahXa Xccf effe Xjji kllkXagga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1010101 1100011 1010011 1110101 1110001 1110111 0010111 1010100 1010101 1010101 1010101 1001101 1110101 10010111 1011101 1111101 1000101 1110111 1110001 1011111 1111111 1010111 1000101 1111111 1010101 1011101 11100100 1110100 1011111 0010101 1010101 1011101 1010111 10101010 10011101 11101100 1001101 1011101 1011101 0110111 1011101 1110101 1010101 11111010 0110001 1111101 0010101 1010101 10101010 10111110 1110101 1110111 1000101 10100001 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Soul;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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