This is an analysis of the poem Incantation that begins with:
Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbaXXXdeefcXXXXcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010010100 11111011001 1100100101010 0010001010010010 11111111110 0100101101001 01110011111 0110000110101 011110111010 101001001010 0101101010 0010100101 011101011001 100011001 1001101110010 11000100010000 11110110101011 01110010101011110 11000100111110 11001010010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 972
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, and, from, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, their are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of Incantation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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