This is an analysis of the poem The Journey Of A Poem Compared To All The Sad Variety Of Travel that begins with:
A poem moves forward,
Like the passages and percussions of trains in progress...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX ac adec fXcdccbdXgXfegc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,4,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110 10100110001011 010001001001000000 011111 110101100 11101101 1001010101010 10110001101111 11010 101010111111110 1011111110 10111110110 10101011110 000101001010 111010010110011 011011011111 1101100010100 1011100010100 0011011011011110 001100010 01011000101100010 11111101100 0001010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, of are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Journey Of A Poem Compared To All The Sad Variety Of Travel;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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