This is an analysis of the poem It Was Never Contemplated that begins with:
When old ADAM bit the apple,
And thereafter had to grapple... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbcCdcXX ddeddeddfXgf fhihhgbgXccjjcccbcCb cXekkeXkgggg Xdcdcec ddijjikkeXXX kkhgghjjbllb bmXmXfcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,20,12,7,12,12,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 10101010 01101010111 11111010 10110010 11100010101 10101010 01101010 01100010101 1101010 11101010 11111000101 10101110 10001010 10100110101 10111010 10001010 10101010001 11101010 10101010 10100010101 101001010 10101010 111110011001 10100011011101 011010111110101 10111011010111 001010101011101 10101011001101 101000111010101 10100011010100 110110100010101 10111000 10100010 00101011101 10110010 10101010 10010010101 10100010 10101010 10101011101 11100010 01101010 11101010101 11101010 11100100 01101010101 10101110 11101010 11101011101 11100100 10101110 11100110011 1010010 11111010 10111110111 10111011010101 101110101010111 10100011010101 101111101011101 001100000010001 10101011000101 101110101010101 00100010 11111010 11100010111 111010010 10111010 11101010111 100111010 10100010 00100010101 10101010 00101110 11111010101 10101010 10101010 10101010101 10101011 10111111 1001010010101 11111010 11111010 10100111101 11100110 01111010 11111011100 10101011010001 101001101010111 10111011010100 101011101110001 10101011010101 111101101110101 11110010010101 111010101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 491
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, and, of, he's, to, we, them, ever are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, 'mid, 'tis, he's, can are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines things, them are repeated).
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- summary of It Was Never Contemplated;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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