This is an analysis of the poem It Is Only Sound That Remains that begins with:
Why should I stop, why?
the birds have gone in search ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXbbbdbefd GhibddfjG afeebeXeGcidaklbbii Giij fdkiljXfd ebXGegief eaijdhXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,9,19,4,9,9,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 011101 001010 00100100100 110101 11010010 10101 0101010101010 111 1000100010 110010 111100101 01101 1111 011010101001 0100000100 00100100001 010011 10010011011 10101 11001010001 1111 11010 1101010101 00111 101010101 01001110 010100010 1011 1011 1111 010100110010 00110101 11001000101 10110101 01110110 0110100 010001010010 10001100001 110000101001 001001110101 1111 11011 0101001 1100 11101 01001010 01001 010010011 1010110100 0100100101 10010001101 111 10101 00101 0010000100 111100010010 1111 10101100 1010101 01010011 01010 0010100001 1001010010 01001001001 1010011010 001010 010100010 1010101 110100010 1000010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, sound are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, what are repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sound connects the lines.
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- summary of It Is Only Sound That Remains;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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