This is an analysis of the poem The Wonder Of It that begins with:
How wild, how witch-like weird that life should be!
That the insensate rock dared dream of me, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXbA aacacA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111110 1010011101 1101011100 110111 1101111101 1110 1101010001 1111110111 0110110101 110111 1101110001 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Wonder Of It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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