This is an analysis of the poem The Highway To Fame that begins with:
In every man this world doth hold
Two selves are cast in that human mould....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb cdecbbcdffbb ggffhhbbcccdX cchheciiaacdh hbbiicd aaaadcccXXbbcccdaa ccbbcccccd jjggbbkkkkccbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,13,13,7,18,10,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010010111 111101101 0110100101 1100010101 1000100111 0100111101 11110111 10110111 101111100 1100101101 1111101111 1100111101 1111101101 110110111 010111111 110101011 111101101 101111111 011110101 110110101 001101101 011001111 011110101 1101011111 0110110111 010100101 111110101 1110010111 101110101 111110111 110101110 110110101 1010110101 11011101 1110111111 010101100 110110111 010110101 111101101 010101101 111010101 111111111 1111110111 1110101101 110101111 111101101 1110101111 11010101 1100111111 1011111101 1010110111 010111111 010100101 1011111101 110100111 0011100111 10111111 1101101001 010111101 0100101101 1100100110 01011101 101101101 0110101101 1101110101 1111101111 0011110111 00111111101 1101111111 110101111 1111111111 110111101 10100110111 110110101 110101101 1110111101 110101101 110101101 10100110111 111100101 11111101 111111111 011110101 110011101 1110111101 01111111 101110111 111101001 1010100101 1101101111 11101101 110101101 10101111 111101111 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 474
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, we, your, my, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a, oh are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Highway To Fame;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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