This is an analysis of the poem Philosophy that begins with:
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His eyes found nothing beautiful and bright, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbb ccc ddd eee X ccc fff ggg hhh X bbb iii jjj kkk X lll eee mmm bbb kkkXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 0111010011 1111010101 1111110111 101110110011 01110111001 1111110111 1101011101 0101010101 01010010111 1101010101 0100011001 1101000111 1 1111000101 1111011101 1111010111 1111110011 1101010101 010100101001 1111010101 01110100111 0101110011 1101010101 1111000101 1101010101 1 0101110101 0100110101 0101011111 0110011101 1111010101 1101010101 01111101010 00111100010 11010110110 01011001111 1111000101 1101000101 1 1111011111 1101000111 1111010111 1111111100 1001010001 0101111101 0101111101 0100110001 11010111101 0101000111 0101011111 1101111111 1101011111 0101010111 1011011101 01011101001 0110110111 1111001101 1001110111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; nor, and, their, of, to, its, midge are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The author used the same words they, a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Philosophy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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