This is an analysis of the poem A Spirit's Return that begins with:
……..'This is to be a mortal,
And seek the things beyond mortality!' ~ Manfred.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab bbbbcd eebbbbafaf ggXghh bibiff bbjjkkljljmk Xdddgeegdddada kbbengg hohobemkmmeeXpgjmqdmbbhjhjgglalaebeeggj ggiihhroorbbcc jjmjkkbgiijjd bebjb ejggebeebbiiogejgamojjkkmmjjenffbbeniiccssjgbbeXggbbmmjj jjddkkiismsmcgcgmmmmeejjqmhjmgdm elaal gmmddXdagXae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,10,6,6,12,14,7,39,14,13,5,56,32,5,89,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1000010 110101100010 1101111101 0111111001 1111110001 1001011101 1011011111 1101011101 11010100001 1001010111 10011111001 0100010001 1011010101 1001010101 01001110111 001101101 11001001011 1101001101 11011011101 1111111111 110100111100 1011110101 0111010001 1001110101 11001100011 1011011101 1101010101 010101011 1111110011 1101010101 1001000111 1011000111 01100011101 0111010101 010011111010 11100111110 0100011111 11110001001 0101011111 0011010101 1011110101 110000111110 1011000101 01010110101 1111110111 0001011001 1101111101 11001010111 1101110111 1101111101 1011000101 1111010101 1011010101 0101001111 1111011101 1001011101 1 101011111 0111010111 0111011111 1011010100 1011010111 010001 1101110001 1100011101 1101010111 1001010101 001101 1 101 10110101010 0101000101 100100000101 10010011111 0011100101 1011010111 10 1 1001101 1111010101 111110 0 111 1111111111 1001001111 1111010111 01001010101 10101001111 10111011101 1100011101 11001011101 10001010101 11110100111 1101010101 110010001 11010100101 111101 1 110 1101010101 11110001001 110101 0101 11111101001 0101010101 0111010011 11110101111 11001011101 1101011111 1011010001 1101011101 1011110101 11000110101 1101100101 111100100011 01110100100 1111111011 1111011101 01010101 1 10 11110001000010 0111 1 10101 0111010101 0101110101 1111100101 010011 11 1 1 1111100011 1111110101 1 111101001 1111010101 11011001001 11011001101 11 1 10101001 1111011101 110001110111 10001010101 1011010101 1101011011 1011010111 1011111 1 11 0110010 1 11 1100011111 1101110101 11111111010 110111010010 11010111001 1011010001 10110101111 11111100101 0100011101 10110000100 0101010101 1011001101 1011010111 100100101101 1110011101 11010110100 1111011111 0101101101 11011000101 0011000101 1111000101 1100010111 10010111 1 1 1001010101 0101100101 1101100110 1101100101 0111010101 1111110101 11010100101 0101100111 11010110101 1100111101 1111010101 1101110111 11010100111 0111010101 11111100101 1011100001110 110010101110 1011110011 0111010001 1101110001 1011110101 1111111101 01010110111 1001011101 1111110101 1001011101 011101001 1101101111 0011011101 11010111001 0111010101 11100011101 00110000101 1001011101 11110010111 11110 1 1 1 01 0011010 0 11 1 110110111 1111100101 0111110111 1101001111 1 1010011101 10010010111 1101100111 01010100101 01001010101 0101001101 1111010101 1011010101 10110010110 1101010101 0111111101 0001110100 110 1 110001 0011011111 1111000101 01010100101 01110100101 0100110101 01100011111 1 1 01000111 1111110111 1101000100 1111110101 110110101100 11111101111 0111010101 0111011101 1111111101 1100111110010 01010110010 11110010010110 010100110100 1010001101 0101010101 0101111101 0011000101 0101011101 1101110101 0111010101 01001011100 11010111110 01000101110 1101010101 1111010101 1 1 110 11101 100111101001 1011111011 01011101101 1011110111 11001110 1 01 1101011101 11110111001 0 10 1001111 0101010101 0010101 1 111 1111011111 1101010111 1101001100 11110101 0 1 1001011101 1011010111 01111011011 0101011 1 10 1101100101 110101100101 0111010111 1100010111 1011110111 1111110101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 699
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 316
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for, to, of, with, i, by, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, for, and, hath, like, so, he, i, nor, by, that, with, of, the, a are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of A Spirit's Return;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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