This is an analysis of the poem Elijah that begins with:
INTO that good old Hebrew’s soul sublime
The spirit of the wilderness had passed;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdefXcgbhccbiccjdkhlaemcdhbkbnajde dngblbeeebehkmeefce cckXccdodahijeoceomkjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,19,22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0010110101 0100010011 11010001001 1101011101 0111010101 1111010101 0101010101 11111101001 1101010001 11110001001 1101010101 11011111001 1101010011 0101010101 1101110101 1110110101 0101010101 0101010111 0100010001 01010000101 0101000101 1100010101 0101110101 1111010101 111010101 1111111111 0101010001 1101011001 11010010111 0101010111 0101010101 1111000100 11111100101 1100111101 1111010111 1110110101 0111110001 1111010101 0101011101 0101010101 1101011111 0101110111 0111010101 1101001111 0100011111 0100010101 0101110101 0101010101 1111011101 1101011001 11010101011 0101000111 0101011101 01010100101 01001001001 1101010101 1101010011 0101010101 0111110111 1101110100 11010011011 1001010111 0101000101 1111111100 1101010101 1100110101 11010010101 0101010101 1101001101 010010111010 1101010101 1101000101 1101110001 1101100100 1110110111 0101010111 1101011101 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1104
- Average number of words per stanza: 205
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to, of, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Elijah;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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