This is an analysis of the poem Confidence that begins with:
Lie down upon the ground, thou hopeless one!
Press thy face in the grass, and do not speak....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011101 1110011111 11011110101 1011010001 10011011111 1001100101 0101010101 0101001111 1101010101 1100010111 1011010101 01001010101 1001011111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; and is repeated.
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- summary of Confidence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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