This is an analysis of the poem The Lone Soul that begins with:
The world has many lovers, but the one
She loves the best is he within whose heart...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefeedcdfgegbhXhabcb bhXXgcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010101 1101010111 1111011100 1101110101 1001010101 1111010001 1110010111 0101010001 1111010001 111010101 0101101101 1111010101 0101010101 01011111001 1100101011 11001110101 1011011111 1101110101 1101110101 0101010111 0101011101 1101000111 11010010001 1001110001 1011110111 1111010101 1101010101 1111110011 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 684
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; her, from, for, his, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, who, what, for are repeated.
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- summary of The Lone Soul;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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