This is an analysis of the poem Foresight And Patience that begins with:
Sprung of the father blood, the mother brain,
Are they who point our pathway and sustain.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddeedd ccffgg bb aa gg hh ii ccddjj cckkbbllbbeeeebbhh ggeXh h ddggddaabb eeggbbjjaa mmcc bbnn o aa ll eep a ggnneeeed deeXbdXqleebbaaaaiinn rhddXgddffnnXqrXjjXmggXdbbsseeeennbbll ggeettee eesshh bb gXbbddooggppii aaddii nnmmhhmmssddbbddnnddddddddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,6,2,2,2,2,2,6,18,5,1,10,10,4,4,1,2,2,3,1,9,21,38,8,6,2,14,6,62,26,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010101 1111111101 1101111101 11110011010 0111011101 01001101111 1100110111 0111011101 11001011011 1101110101 11011101010 1111010101 1001010111 1101111101 1101011101 0101000101 11011101001 1001011110 1111111111 0011010111 1101100111 11111001001 01110101001 1111111111 1111010101 1101010101 1111011111 1111010111 0100010111 1111110101 1101010101 1111010111 1101010101 0111011101 10011010101 1101111111 0101010111 1100110011 01000101010 11010111010 1101110111 0101010111 1101010101 1011010101 1111010101 1100010111 1010010011 1111000101 0111110011 1011010101 1101110110 1100010111 0101010101 0101110111 0111010101 1101111101 1101010111 1101110001 1001010101 11010100101 1101001101 0101100111 1101111101 1101011101 1111111101 1101011001 1101011101 1011110001 1101011111 1011001101 1111001101 1101111101 0101110011 1111110101 1011011101 10110101001 1101100111 0100110011 0101110101 1001010001 1101010111 1101011111 11001101001 11001001111 1111111101 0101010101 1001 110101 1111010101 1100110101 0100110001 0111110101 0101010001 0111 01010 11 0101011100 1111010001 1111010111 1001010101 1111011101 0101010111 01001010101 0100110101 1111110101 1100110101 1001010101 111100101100 01111100001 11001010101 1000111000 11011101010 0101000101 1101010111 0100010101 0100011111 0101000101 0101010101 1111011001 1100010101 0111010101 0111010111 1001010111 1111110101 1101000111 1111010100 0101010111 1101000101 0110110101 0101010110 1101010101 1101000101 01110111010 010111000101 1111010101 11001011101 11100111110 01110100101 1101011100 1111010100 100001110100 01111101001 1101010101 010010100100 1011010101 1011010001 0101010101 01011101010 1001010101 110010010111 1100111101 10110100111 1111011101 1001010101 1111010001 1100110101 0101010101 0101110001 1101011101 11011100111 10010110011 1101110111 1111110001 1101110011 11010111101 1100111101 1100100100 1100010101 1111011101 1111010101 111011010001 0111011011 0101010111 1110000101 1110010101 1101010001 0111011111 0101110011 1111011101 1111011111 111101110 1101111101 1111000101 1100010011 0110110011 11010001001 0100110101 0100111001 1101000100 0101110111 1111110101 1101011111 0101101101 0111010101 0101010101 01000010001 1111110100 1011011101 0111111101 1111010101 1101010001 0101010001 1001110111 111101101001 11011100101 0101010101 1100010111 0101010001 0011101101 1101111101 0101010101 1101110101 0101110101 1001010111 0111110101 0101010101 1101000101 1101010011 1011010001 1101010111 1001010101 0111001111 1011110101 01010101010 10011001010 0101010101 1100110101 01011100101 0101001100 1101000101 0111110101 1101010101 0111010111 1111001101 0101010101 1111111101 1110110101 1101110101 1101011111 1101111101 1101110001 11001110001 01001010101 1111111101 1101100101 1101010101 1101011111 1111010101 0111011111 0110010111 1101011101 1111010101 0100010101 1101010101 0101010101 0100011001 1101011101 1101110001 1101010011 0101010101 1111 110100 1011000101 1101001111 0101010111 1111110111 1011011101 0100011111 1100011101 11011101001 0100111001 1001101111 10001010101 1000111100 0100010111 11110100011 0110110111 11001110111 1101011101 1101110001 1101010101 1101110001 1101010111 0101010101 11000101001 110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 286
- 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; they, i, my, earth, of, and, as, cause, love, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase despair connects the lines.
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- summary of Foresight And Patience;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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