This is an analysis of the poem The Triumph Of Love that begins with:

I
Sun-blazed, over Romsley, a livid rain-scarp....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.

  • Rhyme scheme: a b X cdefeeXXbghiijkXcf X lmklnank X CJaeccccfJkoCc X gpahnhnkk X nfqo X mhhiXa X hrehn X nhn X nh a bhmskkk X bkngcc X dekthsnkmenmmccctke X inpfhiaunnb X cfnfe X hXniknkkscnumqnuolcnvdnoee X kcemXdcciefaXdr X ruckenhemeXXhakecnmk X qudiekene X inXhneeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,18,1,8,1,14,1,9,1,4,1,6,1,5,1,3,1,2,1,7,1,6,1,19,1,11,1,5,1,26,1,15,1,20,1,9,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,24,1,6,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11101001011 1 11110011 1111111011 111100101 1101011010 1110110101 101010010 11010100 1100 10010110011 001010101 01000100101010 100101100 1011111 101000010 11101110101 10101011010 1110010 00110 1 1011100110 01000100100 010100110010 0101001110 110011 101011001 010101 10000010110 1 0010011110 010000100 01011101011 10010100001 1001011 10101011101 00111010010 100011001100 101110111010 010000100 111101 010010101010 0010011110 111011011 1 101111110010 0111111 11011 0100100001 0101010101 10110010 01001101010 11110 00110001010 1 1001010111 111111110 11011111 1111101001 1 110110101000100 101011001010 10001010001 01000101010010 01110101111 111111 1 11001011011010 11000100100010 01101100101010 0101001011000010 110011100101 1 011011101 101010110100 01011010 1 0011010101 11111110010010 1 11010111011 00110100001 1011010010100 010010101 100111001 101001100100 11000101 1 01001101011 0101010101 0101010111 0110011000101 00110101 101110111 1 111010101 1001000011 1010010101 100000100 1000011 1110111 1101111010 111100 110010 1011000111 010110101 011010110 1010010 1100111 1010101110 1010101011 11010001 101110100 0111001 1 011100101 1010001110 0110111001 011000100010 0100010000100 1100100010010 11011111 1111010110 10100101011 10011010100 101101 1 1111111110 10110110110 100010001000101 11010100100110 1001 1 101011101 011000101 111011111 101001010 101001000 0110101100 11011101011 010101 100100100101 10010110010 001011001 1101110 101101010110 010001101 10010011 10010010100 0010000101 010101010 111111001 101010101110 1101010001 11101001011 00111101101 0100011 0011101001 1110010 1 10001110101 100000010 010100010 01000010100 0101001010 01011101 1101110101 1101010101 11000101001 1111011010 0101011110 101101111 1111011000 1101100101 01010001001 1 10110110111 01110110 0110010101 1101101 10010 01010011001 011111001 1000100010 1011110100 01010101 101100100 101100110 010101 1001010101 10011010011 011101111 011101 01100101 10101101010 11011101010 1 111011001111 110111010010 101010000101 101010100100 1101111101 110101101100 101001000101 11001100100100 010101 1 10010100010010 0101101010 0101010000100 11001000101010 1111010111 010010011110 10110010101 110111100 1010010010 010100 1 11010001 101001001000001 1111101 1001101010 10010110 000101 100111101 0101 1111010010 010010 1 0111000100 10100101 11111001 111111 10011111 11111011 10101111 1111011 111001100 111 1 0101110101 10010110001 1001100101 01000111 010110001100 101111111 110101111 1011010111 1111001100 1100100110 100111101 10001001010 0101100110 1011101010 11010010111 11101110101 0111101011 110110111 1010001001 110101010 0101101 0111010101 1001101110 1010 1 1001110 100001011 101011011 11101101 00111110101 11 1 11101001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 50
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 274
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; over, or, for, i, with, and, nowhere, cry, s, to, angry are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, for, to are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Triumph Of Love;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

More information about poems by Geoffrey Hill