This is an analysis of the poem The Impossible Thing that begins with:
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart,
So great a charm was prompted to impart;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaabbXXbbeeffcc ggbbaaffee aaaaffhhbbbb iijjiikkaaii bbaaiijjllbbaahhbbiijjmm aaddbb Xmmhhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,10,12,12,24,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101000111 1101110001 0101110101 1101000101 0101010101 0111111111 1101110111 0101101001 1101011101 00010011101 0101010101 1101011101 01010101010 1101011111 0111011111 1101101111 1100110111 0101110101 1101010111 1001110111 1001110101 1100011101 1101010101 1101110101 0101011101 1101011111 1101010101 1101010011 1111010001 1101000101 0101000100 1111110101 1101010101 1101010111 0101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010111 1101111101 1111010111 1101110011 1001110101 0101110101 1111000111 1011111101 1101010101 1101010100 1111111011 0101110101 1111110101 11010001001 0101011101 1100011101 0101010111 01001010101 1101110111 0100010101 1100111111 0101011101 0011111111 0101011101 0101001101 1111110001 1101000101 0101010101 1101011111 10011110111 11010100001 0111110001 1111010111 0111111111 1101110011 0111010101 0101001101 1011010111 1101010110 0101110101 1101111101 11010101001 1101010101 1101000101 1101111010 0101110001 1111110101 0101011101 1101010001 1101010111 0100110101 11111101001 0101011101 1101010011 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 563
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 93
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; in, to, it, he, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Impossible Thing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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