This is an analysis of the poem Science And The Soul that begins with:
I sought, in sleep, to find the mountain-lands
Where Science, in her hall of wonder, dwells.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbb cdcdXX cecebb aeaedd fdgdhh ifXfjj gbgbkX fXfdll elelcc bfXfeX dedeii ahahll fjfjkk mamann bababX dfdfdd XehebX lblbjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1100010101 1111010101 1101010101 0101011111 1011010101 1001010111 1101011111 1011110111 10011110000 1101111101 11110101110 1101111101 1111011101 1001111111 0101110101 1101011010 0101010111 1001011101 1011011101 1101010101 0101110101 0101110101 1001010101 1101010101 1111110101 0101010110 01000101011 1101000011 0100110100 1101010101 1101111101 0111000101 1011010101 10011010011 1111111101 11010110010 11010111011 11010101110 0111111111 1011110111 00100001000 1111110101 0101110110 1100010011 1101111101 0111110101 1001000101 0110010101 0101000101 0111111001 1101110101 1011011111 0111010011 1101011111 1111011111 1110111100 1111101101 0011011001 11110100100 1101010111 1011010101 1101110111 0101000111 1100011101 1101110101 1000110111 0101010101 0101010001 0100110101 111110101 01010100100 1001010101 01001010111 1010111011 0111000101 0101010101 0111011111 1101111101 0101011101 1001010100 1001010101 1111111111 1101010100 10001001101 0111000101 1001011111 0001011101 1100010101 0111110101 1111110111 1101111111 01110100101 1001010001 1111110111 0111101100 1111111101 1110010111 11011010101 1001111101 1111010110 01110010100 1111010111 1111001111 0111011101 1101010111 1101011101 0111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 108
- 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; i, and, you, her, of, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, that, for are repeated.
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- summary of Science And The Soul;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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