This is an analysis of the poem The Suicide that begins with:
Last was the wealth I carried in life's pack-
Youth, health, ambition, hope and trust but Time... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbX cddccdecdc fggffggf dbbXdbbd chhcchhc ijXiijjX effeeffe gjjXgjjg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110011 1101011111 1111011101 1111110101 0111011101 0101110101 0111011001 1101011010 1001010101 1101110101 01011101001 1111010101 1101111111 1111011101 1 1 11001101 1111110101 0111010110 0111110111 1101110101 1101010111 1111011101 1101111011 1101100101 1100010111 1111010011 11001101101 1111111111 01110101100 1111110101 01110011101 0111110101 1101011111 1101111101 11011111001 0100010101 01011101001 01110100101 1101111101 0111010101 1101010011 1101110101 1001011111 0111010111 1101110111 0111110101 1011110101 1101011111 0111011101 1100011111 1110011101 0101011111 1111010101 1111011111 1011110111 1111011101 1111011101 0111010101 01001111101 1111110111 0111010101 1101110011 1100011101 1100010111 1101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, what, with are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Suicide;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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