This is an analysis of the poem The Beginning that begins with:

They tell strange things of the primeval earth,
But things that be are never strange to those... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdeafd gddghbig jkhdle Xmkckf XkX Xibchini heheeghjdgicb dhbdbf glhgjbX Xhbhho hkogo degiX hlbbelbbhblcgXgnegbgbhfbeg iehmX eX XlihX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,6,6,3,8,13,6,7,6,5,5,26,5,2,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111000101 1110110101 0101111011 1011110001 0011010101 1111111111 1101011111 0101111101 1101010001 1111000101 1111011100 1011010111 1001111101 1111011101 1111110101 01001010101 100101 1111 1111011001 0110011101 1111010100 0101111011 011101010 11 0101011111 0101110101 1001010101 0111010001 0101001 11 1011010101 0101111110 10111 10011 0001011001 0001011011 1101111111 1100111101 10001010001 1101 111111 1101101111 1001001101 0101100110010 1100011101 11001011011 1011011101 0111111101 0110110111 1101001111 10110100001 1111110101 00111101 01 10101001101 011000101110 11111100101 1101000101 11001011 01 10011000101 0101010100 0111010101 1101010111 1001011101 11000110111 10110 10111 0101011101 0100111101 0111010111 1111010 011 10110101001 11011111100 0111110100 1001010 101 0101011101 1111010111 1101011101 1100111111 1111110101 1001011101 1011010111 10010101001 1101010101 1111010111 1101011101 1111111111 0011010101 1001000101 1101011111 1111111111 1111110101 1100110111 1111010101 1101011101 0101110101 0111011101 001110101 0111011101 1001010101 1101011100 1111111011 1101100101 1100010111 101101 1111 1111110111 1101111011 1011011011 110101 1111 1001111111 1001110110 0101011111 11110101111 0111010101 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; called, all, long, ago, and, in, for, here, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words another, in, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word the 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 ', rest, gaze are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Beginning;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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