This is an analysis of the poem The Remedy that begins with:
When you've failed with ordered people, when you've sunk neck-deep again
In the sluggish wash and jetsam of the slackened tides of men,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc ddXeeecc aabc ffcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101111101 001011100010101 111111101010100 11010111110101 11101111110101 111110101010001 1010101000111010 111010101010001 001010110011101 111110101010101 111010111110000 101110101011001 111010101111101 111010100010101 101010101011100 111010111111101 111001101110111 11101111001001 111010111010101 101010101010111 111010101010101 111110100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, they, when, you've, you'll, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Remedy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Harry Kemp
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