This is an analysis of the poem To The Theoretical Selector that begins with:
WOULD YOU be the King, the strong man, first in council and in toil,
To the men who war with nature for possession of the soil?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccccdd eeffcc gghhhh iiccXX jjccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110010111010101 001110101010001 111011101010101 111000101111111 101111101011111 111010101111111 1010101100010111 1101101010101001 111111101110111 111010101010101 111000101110001 111011100110101 101000111010111 01011101010101 101010101011101 10100101010100101 111011100011111 111011101011101 111111101010111 101001101011101 111011111110101 101010101010101 101111101011011 101010101010101 011110111110101 111010101010101 111010101110101 111011101010001 111011101110101 10101101010110 111110111001101 111000101011111 111010111111111 111011101110101 101011101011111 101011101011101 101100101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 398
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, you, when, to, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, when are repeated.
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- summary of To The Theoretical Selector;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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