This is an analysis of the poem The Search that begins with:
Whither, O, whither art thou fled,
My Lord, my Love?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dede bfbf gfgf cfcf aXaX hihi jXje kgXX kgXg lhlh eeee XfXf Xfif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 1111 11011101 1101 11111101 1101 1101011 1111 11111101 1111 10011101 1101 111111001 1011 11011011 1111 11010111 1101 11110111 0101 11010101 0001 01011101 1111 11111101 11010 111011011 10110 10111101 0111 11010111 0010 11110101 1101 11110011 11011 10111000 1101 00111100 1101 10101100 1100 11110111 11011 11111011 1011 11001111 1111 11111101 11011 0110111 01111 11111101 1111 11110110 0101 11110110 1101 111100101 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, and, what are repeated.
The author used the same words yet, i, thy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Search;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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