This is an analysis of the poem The Candidate that begins with:
Ye idler things, that soothed my hours of care,
Where would ye wander, triflers, tell me where?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaaXXccXXffggahiijjbbeeiikXggiiiillmm l iimmccffaaddkk kllXaggggbbbbkkan XggXXkkiiggl mmkkbbeeggeebbiibbggbbaabbffccXiccggaaaalXiiaaccooiiX ffbbiilleeahhhaalliiiiiibbiibbaaggbbcceejjiinnbbiiggggcceeXXllliXaaiiffggiiXboobbd nnaaffcciiiiggiieennoo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,1,14,17,12,53,82,64,18,19,11,50,44,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110011111001 1111010111 1101011101 1011100101 0111011101 1101110101 1101110101 0101110001 1111011001 0111010101 11001011101 11011100101 1111100101 11010110100 11001110111 1101110111 0111010110 10110111001 1111110111 10110101001 1101001101 01101101001 1101111101 11010101010 1101010101 1011010101 1111111111 1011111001 11110100101 01001111001 1101011101 01011101001 11001010111 1101110101 1101010101 0101101000 11010010101 11001010001 0101010101 1111010101 1101111101 1101011101 0101111101 11010110111 10110011001 10111011001 0010001011 0101010101 1011010101 1101010001 0111010111 1101011101 010010111001 11010100101 0110111101 1111010111 1101110101 1101111101 1101011101 1101110111 111101010 1 1100010111 1110111111 110111001110 1011010111 1111011101 0101011101 0101110111 0101011101 1111010101 0101000101 0101011101 11010011101 1101010111 11010001001 1111010101 11011011 10 0101010111 10010110001 0101010101 10111111001 1111110101 11010101101 1101011101 1111011101 11010000101 1001011101 111111110 1 1111110111 1101010011 1101010101 1110111101 1101010101 1011011111 1101010101 1001010101 1001110001 1101010101 110101001001 0101010101 0111011101 01110100101 1011101101 1101011101 1101110101 01010100101 11010100101 1101010101 1101110101 1111011101 1111011001 1111110101 0011110101 11000110101 1111010111 1111010101 1101100101 10100111100 0101010101 1101011101 10011100101 1101111101 1101011101 1001110101 0101111111 1111011101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1111011101 0111010111 1111010111 1111011111 01001110101 1111110011 1101110101 1101011101 01001011101 1001110101 111101110 1 1101011101 01111101101 1101011011 0111010101 1011110101 1111011101 1101110101 0101011101 1101110001 1011110101 11110101010 11110101010 110101010010 11101010101 1101110001 11110100101 1110111101 1101110101 0101010111 1111010111 1111011100 0101010101 1111110101 1100111101 1101001101 1011011101 11001010101 1101101101 0101111001 1011111101 1111011111 1101011101 1100111101 0101110101 1111110101 1111010101 1011100111 11110001001 1111010101 1011110111 1111011111 11001010111 1011100101 1100010001 1111010111 11011100101 1111111111 1011110101 1101010101 1011100101 0101111101 10110001001 11001000101 11111100101 1001100101 11110100101 1101010001 1111010111 1111111101 1101110111 0111000101 100101010101 01001010101 01110101100 1001010101 11100001101 1011010101 1111010101 1101000101 1001010101 11011101001 1101010101 1111111101 1101011101 11110101100 0001000101 1111010101 11010101011 1101010101 110001110101 111111010 1 11010011101 1011110101 10110001101 1011010101 1000111101 11101110101 10111101001 1111111001 110010100101 0101010101 1101010111 1101010111 1101010101 1111011101 1101010101 01111001001 1111110101 1111110101 110010010001 1011010101 11010001001 10010110101 11010111100 1101000101 1101110101 1011010110 1111111111 0101010101 0111100101 0101010101 1101011001 0101110001 11001110000 1001010101 01001010101 10111100101 1011010101 11111101010 1101001101 1101110101 0101110111 0101110101 1110110111 010011101001 1001001101 10111100101 1101000101 1101011101 1101011101 1111101111 0101110100 1101010101 1101010001 1101100101 1101010111 1101000101 1011010101 11011111001 1001010111 1111010101 0111011101 0101010101 110111111 1 1101011101 1101011101 1001110111 1101010101 1101101101 0101010110 01010100101 1111110101 1101110101 11011101001 1101010101 1111010101 101110101010 11010010111 1101010101 11011111001 11011110100 1 10101110101 11001110101 11001011101 1001011101 010001010101 1101110101 11100010101 01010010101 110101111010 0101111101 1101110101 01010100101 1101110101 101101110010 11010101010 0101010101 01011100101 11110101010 1 1101110101 110100110101 10010010101 1111010101 1011110101 1101010101 0101010101 11001010101 01001010101 011111001 10 1101011101 1100100101 1111010111 01010100101 01110010101 11001010101 1101010101 1101110101 1111010001 1101111101 1011011101 0101010111 0101110101 10111010101 1101010011 1111110101 0101110101 0011111101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010001 11010001001 10111101100 1111011011 1011110001 11001010101 1011010110 11011101010 1111000101 1101010101 1011011101 1111110011 1011010010 1111111101 1011001101 10011110101 1101110101 01011100111 11110010101 1101010111 1101010101 1011101101 1111011101 11011101001 0111111100 0111011101 1101011101 1101110011 110101110 1 1101110101 011100111001 1111010101 1101110101 11010101010 010101010010 0111010101 11001010101 0101011101 1101010001 11011101001 0101010101 10101010011 1011110101 1101111111 1011110101 1101011001 1101011101 11111011101 0101010101 1100111100 010011100101 1011110100 1111110101 110111011 1 1111010111 1101111001 1011110111 1111010101 0101101101 0111110101 1111111101 10110010111 1001010101 1111010011 0101010101 0111001011 00110111001 1011110101 1011010111 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1331
- Average number of words per stanza: 237
- Amount of lines: 431
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; ye, and, without, to, their, his, he, thy, my, no, nor, her, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, lest, or, my, of, nor, so, not, where, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase die connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Candidate;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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