This is an analysis of the poem The Pilgrim that begins with:
Youth's gay springtime scarcely knowing
Went I forth the world to roam--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacXccdcdefeXXeXefgfghihicececjcj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 1110101 10101010 1101101 01111010 0111111 10111010 0110101 11111010 1110101 100101010 1010101 11101010 1011001 10101010 10101110 11101110 1010111 10101100 1111110 11101011 10111001 11101111 10010101 010111010 1011011 10101010 1110001 10001010 1010111 11101010 1110101 11101010 1110101 10101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1174
- Average number of words per stanza: 213
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my, i, me, never are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, till are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Pilgrim;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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