This is an analysis of the poem Parable Of The Madman that begins with:
Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning
hours,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdefefadg bhibjieeabcbeajjaXdebddk bdjbgjgjXX bgdggaekkdbb ibXaghX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,24,10,12,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101111101000110 10 100101110100 111111 110011010101 0100111 101110 111111 011011011010 10110 01010111110101010 11111 01110011110001 1001111011 1111111 10110100 110110 1111101 1110101010010010 101101110001001 1000101101110 01011 1111001000 101001001010 01110111 1111011110010 1111010101 10101100110100010011 111101100010 1111011001001000 111001 1111011000110010 11101 101 1011 11111 1111001010001100 1110011000110111111 0110111010111 11001110101 1100001011010011001 010100011111 11011011100011000 111000101101001101 1010011001001010011 100100 1011110110110100 111010111100100 1111010101 1010010111 11111011111011 001001011011100 011110101 101100101 010010101 1111010100111 01011100011101 11111001 0100101011011 0111010010010 1111010010010 111100110111010110 1 110111101 011101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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; he, we, not, of, and, time are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words do, god, what are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dead, time are repeated).
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- summary of Parable Of The Madman;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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