This is an analysis of the poem Star-Gazing that begins with:
LET be what is: why should we strive and wrestle
With awkward skill against a subtle doubt? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc bdbd efef eaXa egeg XhfX bgbg iaia Xaaa fbfb Xihih
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101111110 0101010101 11010011101 1101010101 11010111010 1101110101 01011101010 1101011101 11011101010 1101110111 1111001011111 1111111101 11011111010 1111010101 10011111010 0101011101 11110101010 1011011101 11010111100 1101001111 11110101010 1111010101 10011101010 11111101101 1111010110 0111110111 010111111010 11011101010 11110111010 1101111111 11010101010 0111001101 111001010100 0110010101 011111111100 1111111101 01010101010 0101011111 11110101010 11110011001 11010100010 0101111101 01011101110 01010101001 01111111110 1101000101 11110011110 0101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; it, and, to, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the are repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Star-Gazing;
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