This is an analysis of the poem Knowledge that begins with:
THEY were islanders, our fathers were,
And they watched the encircling seas,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaaXbabccX dededXfdfbbX cdcdgXegeaaX hdhddXidiccX cjcjbXebekk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001100 111001001 111100101 1010001 11111101 1 11101001 11101111 10011001 101 101 1 111010111 0101011 11011101 110111 1010101 1 1100101 1011110 1100101 0101 1110 1 1100100111 1100101 11101001001 001001001 1110101 1 0110001 11110111 1110111 101 001 1 1110111101 11111101 11100100 00101111 011101 1 111111 0011011 11100101 0110 0101 1 1111101111 1100101 111111111 101001001 11101101 1 1010101 101001011 01011001 11011 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; and, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Knowledge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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