This is an analysis of the poem A Poet's Soliloquy that begins with:
ON a time — not of old —
When a poet had sent out his soul and no welcome had found... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb bccbdd effegg ahhaiiXaddaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101101 101011101111011 10100100111011 01011 11101111111001 11001001101001011 11101 111011011001101 11111001001011 01111 01011011001011 111001001001001001 11001 011011111001011 001001101001101 111011 11011001001001 111101001111011101 111011 11001101001011 01111001111001 111011 0110101011011 111111111001101001 111001 111111101101001 111011111011011 101101 001111101111011 110010011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and, thou, hast, thy, with, have, we are repeated.
The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Poet's Soliloquy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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