This is an analysis of the poem Corruption that begins with:
Sure it was so. Man in those early days
Was not all stone and earth;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXdedefdfdgagXghghdidihhhhjjeadaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101101 111111 1101011111 111001 111010011101 110110 1111110101 0110110 1101101111 110111 1011110111 111101 1101001111 111101 1101010111 011001 0111111101 010011 1111011101 1111010 11101101111 0101010 01010111011 0111110 1011011111 1111110 1101111111 1111010 0101111111 111101 11110111011 110101 1111011111 1101110101 010101 1011111101 11010110 1111011101 1010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1481
- Average number of words per stanza: 282
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 he is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Corruption;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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