This is an analysis of the poem Warning that begins with:
A man there was, a gentle soul,
Of mild enquiring mind,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb baca XdXd edXX fbXb adXd Xcac cfef Xbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 011001 11000100 010101 11111101 110101 10010011 010001 11110100 110111 10011100 110101 01110101 111101 1001110 111101 01011111 010101 11011101 110111 01000101 011101 0111010 110101 01110101 110101 11010101 010111 10111111 110111 01111100 010101 11111111 111101 01000100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Warning;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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