This is an analysis of the poem Bewildering Emotions that begins with:
The merriment that followed was subdued--
As though the story-teller's attitude... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbXXccaaXXddeeeX X XffXdXXXed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100110101 1101010101 0100010101 1101010101 01010001001 1001110100 1011011101 0101110100 1111011010 1111110101 1111010111 11001110101 1101111101 0111110111 1101010001 1101010001 1101110001 1111010101 1111010111 0110 111 1111 1101111101 0111111111 01011101110 1111011101 11010111101 1101111101 1101010011 1101010101 01
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 410
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; as, i, to, ', you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
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- summary of Bewildering Emotions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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