This is an analysis of the poem Rebuke that begins with:
The world is old and the world is cold,
And never a day is fair, I said.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaa bcbcb dadadXcacac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 110010111 100100111 011100111 10110101 010101101 010101101 1011101101 10010111 1100101 100100101 1100100101 010110101 0011110101 10110101 010110101 110010111 110100111 0100101101 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Rebuke;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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