This is an analysis of the poem What Is Good that begins with:
“What is the real good?'
I asked in musing mood. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa bcdcdefefX XX XabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011 110101 101011 10101 11011 10101 11010 10101 101010 1101 11010 10001 111110 1100110 101110 10011 111010 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; said is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of What Is Good;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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