This is an analysis of the poem Villanelle: The Psychological Hour that begins with:
I had over prepared the event,
that much was ominous....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcbd EF agXd XahdXXaiA EF adjj Xgai hbh XaX fX cXjaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,4,9,2,4,4,3,3,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001001 111100 010101 11111011 111111010 1001101 1110110 111001 1101010 11110010 01010010 1010100100 01001011 0110010 111110110 1111 111101 10101001 111 111001001 1001101 1110110 11010010 111011 011111110 111001 1000110100 1011011 110101 110101 11111110 1101011 11110 1011101 011 0101000 1011001 11011100 101101 11010 110011 1001011 1011110100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; so, friends are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, so, the, no are repeated.
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- summary of Villanelle: The Psychological Hour;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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