This is an analysis of the poem Autobiographia that begins with:
I had everything and luck: Rings of smoke
blown for me; sunlight safe inside the leaves...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabcac ddbXc dXdaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110111101 1111110101 0101110100 0110100111 0101011101 1011010110 1111110101 1110101101 1110111110 1110101011 0111110011 1101011101 11111110111 0111111110 1110101101 11001010110 1110011001 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, i, my, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word everything at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Autobiographia;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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