This is an analysis of the poem The Wantaritencant that begins with:
It watched me in the cradle laid, and from my boyhood’s home
It glared above my shoulder-blade when I wrote my first “pome”;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb ccbX aabX ddbX bbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01100101101101 01011101111111 01011101010110 00011111110111 01110111010101 11011101011101 01010111010101 010101001010000 01010111110111 111101011001101 01011111010101 01011101010000 11111101111101 11010111110101 01110111110110 110101000010000 11011101110101 01010101010100 00010101010101 01010101010000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, my, and, that, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word wantaritencant at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of The Wantaritencant;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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