This is an analysis of the poem Things To Come that begins with:
When you have gone and I have gone
Beyond the ken of earthly things,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdd eaeaffgg bcbcddbb bhbhaaeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111 01010101 11011101 100100101 10010001 111111001 11110101 11000111 11111111 10111111 01010101 01010001 111101001 10011011 11110101 11110101 11111111 01001101 11010101 110111001 10110101 11010101 11110111 11011001 11010101 11010101 101001001 110001100 11010001 10111101 11111111 10110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Things To Come;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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