This is an analysis of the poem Doubt that begins with:
1 They bade me cast the thing away,
2 They pointed to my hands all bleeding,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaa cddccc aeeaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 1110011110 1110101110 101111111 111111101 101111101 111011101 1010111110 1011101110 101011111 111001101 111011101 111111101 1111111110 1010111110 101110101 110011111 111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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, if are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Doubt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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