This is an analysis of the poem The Past that begins with:
To-day's most trivial act may hold the seed
Of future fruitfulness, or future dearth;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc adad efef gdgd hhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110011101 0101001101 11011100111 0100101011 0111010111 0111010111 0111011101 0101010001 1101010101 101011010001 1101000101 0111001011 1101010101 1101110111 1001010101 1111010111 01001111101 1101010101 1101110001 1101010011 1111111101 1001110101 0100100011 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Past;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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