This is an analysis of the poem A Creed that begins with:
Out of the womb of time and dust of the years forgotten,
Spirit and fire enclosed in mutable flesh and bone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa bcac aXaba XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111000010 10110010100111 11010101101110 01010011110101 0001011010011110 1100010110111 1001101001110 0111100100110101 111011111010110 111101110111 11 110110001010110 11010110111101 100101001000010 1010011110101101 0001111111101000 0111111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, by, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of A Creed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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