This is an analysis of the poem Honours - Part1 that begins with:
A Scholar is musing on his want of success.
To strive—and fail. Yes, I did strive and fail;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc cccc cdcd e fbfb gXga hehe idid bjbj dgdg kdkd gXgd cbcX dldl dcdX cbcb meme jhjh cbcb gcgc mcmc ngXg ibib abab dgdg cbcb jdjd Xmbm ggXX bebe alal XdcX XdmX X ejej dcoc hcXc dbdb jbjb cccc Xded gcgX phph eXeb Xjmj jaja emem hchc abXb lXle Xjbj ncnc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010010101001 0111110111 1111010101 0101011111 000111 1111100111 1101111101 0101111111 010101 1101111111 1111111111 1111111111 110101 010001 1111110111 1101010101 1101011111 011001 0111010101 1101011100 0101111100 111101 1101101101 01010111101 10110010101 110101 11001110101 0101011101 1101011101 010101 1011001101 01110101001 1101101111 011111 1001110111 11010101001 1111011111 111101 1111110101 1101010111 1001011111 110011 111010001010 1101011000 11010101110 010111 1101000111 01010101001 0101010111 111111 1101110101 1101111101 0111110011 010111 11101000111 0101011101 01010101001 111111 1101010111 0111000111 1101110101 111101 1101000101 0101010101 01001010101 010001 1100011101 0101010111 0111001101 100111 1101111101 0101110101 0111110111 110101 1101011101 11110111001 11110101001 110100 1100110111 1101001101 1111010101 011101 1101000101 1101000111 1101110110 110101 1101110001 1011111101 0101010101 010101 1101011111 0010010101 1111000101 110111 1011111101 0111010111 11000101001 110101 1100011101 1101010101 1100110101 011101 1100111101 0101011101 1101011101 110001 1111110101 010101101 11110100101 111101 1111110111 1111010101 1101010111 1111010 11101011101 111010101 0111101101 111101 11011110100 1001111001 0101110100 111101 11101010111 1101010011 1101011101 11010 11100110100 0101110101 1111010101 110001 1110101 1111 1101010101 11110000101 111111 1111110101 11010101001 1101110100 110111 1101110101 1101011101 110110100 111101 1101101101 01000101001 0111110101 1100011 1101000111 1101011101 1001111101 111101 11111011011 1101110101 01000011101 110101 1110011111 1111100111 1111011001 010111 11101010101 1101011001 1101110011 1111000 1001010100 0111110011 1001001100 111111 1111010101 0101110110 1001111101 1110001 1111010100 11011111101 1111010111 110111 11011100101 0110010101 1101000101 111100 11001110101 0101110101 1101111111 110111 1101001101 1111011101 1101011101 110110 1110110101 1100111111 0111011100 110111 1101110111 1111010111 1101110101 11011 1111010100 111111100001 0101011101 111101 1010010111 1111010111 0111100101 1100100 1100110101 11011100101 1011100100 110111 11001011101 1011011101 0110011101 110011 11001110101 1101101101 0111011101 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 56
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 215
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, i, me, of, it, its, her, he, to, ', false, that, you, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, the, its, of, her, and are repeated.
The author used the same words 'the, 'and, ', 'for, 'take at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words me, ' 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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Honours - Part1;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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