This is an analysis of the poem The Unattained that begins with:
And is this life? and are we born for this?
To follow phantoms that elude the grasp,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacaccccccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001111110 0101010101 1100010111 01001101101 01110010101 1111011101 11010000111 01000010101 1111010001 1001110111 1101110001 1111110101 1101110101 0011011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of The Unattained;
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