This is an analysis of the poem The Question that begins with:
Beside us in our seeking after pleasures,
Through all our restless striving after fame, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd Xefefgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101101010 1111010101 101111101110 1101111101 10110101110 01000110101 111111001010 1101011101 11110111100 1111110101 11010110010 0111110101 11101111110 1111110011 10110111010 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; our, he, your are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Question;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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