This is an analysis of the poem How To Meditate that begins with:
-lights out-
fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXbcaXdadaddXcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 11010010100 1001010100110 0101011010 0011010101 1111111101 10010110 1110001011 10010011110 1001100101 10110101 1010001001 1100101101 11011101 01111011 0111011011 1011110 111101 10 10
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 669
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, it, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines and is repeated).
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- summary of How To Meditate;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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