This is an analysis of the poem The Ruling Thought that begins with:
Most sweet, most powerful,
Controller of my inmost soul;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcde fbgccc caaacfhh bbijjhde ghjjghcc ekkcXll mjmjcjdhh jhbjXjXgddeikmbb jbhjbiigabb nebodajj bohhhgXcgcgg XbielbbjibbbhllbbbjbbaabnheXae gjeeXa Xhifhheegocc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,8,8,7,9,16,11,8,12,30,6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111100 01001101 01001101 0100101 01110100 1111010101 01010010 11011111 010100 1110110101 0101110001 0111011101 11010011 11001101 111101 110111 110101 110111110 000101 0101010101 1101 11111011 1101110101 110001 11011101 01010101 01000100 0100110101 100101 001101 0101010101 0011100101 1001110101 0101011101 1001011101 1101011101 0101010011 01010101 11010101 0111111101 111101 1101011 0101111111 101111 110100110 11011101 01010101 110101 1011110111 010100 0101100101 0101000101 11110101 110101 110101 11111101 1101010100 11010101 01000101 11011101 0101010100 1101010100 11110101 1101111101 1101110101 010101 010100101 1111110101 011101 110101 110101 0111010 0101000111 01010101 11111101 010010 0100101 11010101 0101111101 11110101 1111110111 010111 1101111 0101110100 1101011101 011101 1111010100 11010111 10010101 11010101 1101 111101 0101110100 01101110100 1101110101 00110100 1111110011 0111010101 0101111100 1101111000 110101 0111110101 01110111 0101011100 111101 11110101 111101 0001011101 1111 0111010 01110101 10010101 110111 10010101 11111101 11110110111 110111 11100011 01010010100 0101100101 1111011111 11010100 110101 011001 11010110011 0101100101 01011111 11010101 1101010101 11010100101 1111 010101 11010101 0101011110 11010100 111110 01110101 11100111 111101110 1111011101 1101011101 11010011 01010111 1111100101 111011111 1111010001 1111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 147
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, what, and, to, that, than are repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Ruling Thought;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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