This is an analysis of the poem Man’s Discontent that begins with:
White feet half hid in violets, small hands in a burden fair,
A burden of Spring's first blossoms she wove for her neck and hair...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXcdd aaeeddffeebXXc ggXeddbb hhccdd bbeebb Xccciibbcc jjbbXceebbXaaeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,14,8,6,6,10,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111101001100101 010011101110111 00111101010110100 111110101110111 11111110100111 11111110011101 1100111010101001 10110011111101 110111101011111 101011111100111 110011100111101 111100111100101 11111110110101 10101010110001 101111101100111 01110101110101 011110101110001 111010010100101 101111011101001 110111011110100 11111110100111 11111010111101 1101111011110 11111110110111 10101010111100 10111010110111 110010011010111 11100011110111 101110101011111 101010100011101 101011011010101 101110101010101 111110101110101 111110101110101 1101011110111001 01101101110101 111011101100111 101000101010001 101110101010101 101011101011101 101010101110111 11100101110101 11111110100111 001110101011111 001110111011001 11010101111101 001111111010011 001111101011001 111101101010101 101111111111111 101010100110001 101010101111001 1111001011100101 100110101111111 110010101110001 1100100111101011 11011110100111 101110101011110 111011101110111 111110100111101 101010101011101 10101010111101 011101001110111 101111101010101 101111101010101 101111101011111 111111100011101 11011111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 542
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, i, of, too, to, and, that, their, in, not, hid are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of, that are repeated.
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- summary of Man’s Discontent;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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