This is an analysis of the poem Poetry And Reality that begins with:

THE worldly minded, cast in common mould,
With all his might pursuing fame or gold,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccXd eeaaffffgg hhiiccjjccggfXf jjddaaccggddbb aaiibbkkllbXmmnXjjcdffoo aajXggccaa bbnnaaffaabbcciiaXbbbbffccbb aaaabbddddccaaccffbb aaffhhppbbhhbbnncc qqookkbbbbbblX jjaaaaaXjfX ccccaakkffeekk aabbccggffXbaaajjaaffffddffjjggbbbbaaaabbbbjjnnrrddkk n
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,15,14,24,10,28,20,18,14,11,14,53,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 0101010111 10111101001 0101010101 1101011101 01010010111 1001010111 11010101001 1101110110 1101000101 1111011101 1111011001 111101001001 1001010101 11011010101 1101000011 1111010100 11010110111 11010100010 01011101010 11010111010 01010101010 0101110101 11001001001 0111000101 0101010111 11010110111 01010101001 0101010101 01001010101 01110100101 0100100001 0101010111 0101011000 0001010110 11010100101 0101010101 110011100111 0101001101 0101011101 0101000101 1111110111 1101010001 1101011101 0001010101 0101000101 0011000101 11110011101 0101010001 1101001101 010100011 1101010101 1100110101 0101001101 10010010101 1101010101 1001000101 0011000111 0111110101 1001101101 1111110011 0001010111 1101010101 10101111101 1111011110 1101111101 1101010111 1001010101 1001000101 0001010111 1101110101 1111010101 1111111101 1001010001 1100010111 1101010101 1111010111 1111010101 110000111 1101110101 1101000101 0110000101 1111010101 1101010101 0101100101 1111110101 1111000101 1111010111 0101000001 1111010101 1111110101 0111011101 01010101001 0101000111 01101000101 01001100111 1101100101 1101110111 1111010101 1011010101 110101010011 1111011001 1101010101 11001011101 1111010101 111000111001 0101010011 00010101010 00110101010 1111011101 0111011101 0101000101 0101010111 1101110101 1111010001 11010101001 1101010101 1111110101 0111011101 1101010101 0101110101 11110101111 0101010101 0101011001 1101001101 01010011001 01010010101 0001011101 0101010101 1101110011 1001000101 01010100101 01001111101 11110101101 1101010101 11111101010 11110101010 1001010101 01010000101 1101010101 11001110101 01110100010 01010101110 0111011101 0110010101 1110000101 0101010101 1101010101 11000111010 0101011001 0101011101 1111110101 1001010001 0101000101 0101111101 0101000101 0101011101 0101010111 1101100101 0101010101 1111110101 1111011101 11110101101 1101110001 10011100011 0101011101 0101010101 11010111101 11110011101 1101001101 1101110110 01001000101 1001110101 111110010 1101110101 0101010101 1111111101 1111011101 0101010111 011001101 1101010101 1101001100 1101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1110010111 0101010001 0101110101 1001010101 1101010101 1001111101 0111110101 01011000101 0111110111 1111010101 0101010101 1111011011 1101110101 11010101111 1111010111 01010011101 0101010101 0101001101 0110100111 1101110101 1101001111 0101111101 11010011101 0110010101 1111000101 1101010101 1001010101 1001010111 11001110111 1111111101 1111000101 1001010101 11110001001 1011000101 1101010111 01001010101 1101010001 1011110010 1111110001 1101110101 0111110101 1101010001 1001010101 0111010101 1101111101 0101010101 1111111101 10010101001 1101011100 1111011101 1101101101 10010010101 1101110101 11010010101 1101010101 0111010101 1111010101 1101111101 1101010101 0101110011 0101010011 1101000101 0101010101 1111011101 1111010101 1011010111 10110101001 1100110101 1101010101 1100100011 11110001001 0101000101 1011010111 1101110101 10111010111 1101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 756
  • Average number of words per stanza: 134
  • Amount of lines: 261
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, and, to, this, his, he, nor, their, not, its are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, the, where, this, in, to, there are repeated.

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  • summary of Poetry And Reality;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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