This is an analysis of the poem The Preacher that begins with:
Its windows flashing to the sky,
Beneath a thousand roofs of brown,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacbbddee faaaffeXf gehgFXiijjkkXijjj ffllbbbbkkkk eeekkiiaaac mmffffnnbb iiiibbkkii Xfoojjbbmmkkeee bbffeekkiipp eeiiffeebbffppqq mmbb ffoorrffoojjiillssiiii ppiiiiissmm kkllbbmmoobbXkkqqkk ffXdffoojjfX kkiiiikkmmac ffbbffnnkkeeaac iXehbbkkiiiiiippkkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,17,12,11,10,10,15,12,16,4,22,11,19,12,12,15,20,36,46,16,77,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010001 01010101 11011111 10011101 01011111 11110100 010100001 10110111 00011111 01110101 01011101 01100101 10011111 01010111 01110101 10110101 01010111 01010101 10110111 101011010 01001101 01110101 100011101 101101010 10011111 10110101 1101001010 11110111 00110111 110100011 01010101 11010100 01001001 110010111 01010101 01000101 11011011 01010101 100100101 100100100 111011101 1110001001 0111011001 10101111 110111101 01001000111 10101001001 010101101 0010101101 010100101 010111001 010100111 110100101 10100101 110100101 111100101 11010111 010100101 1011110101 10111100 1110100100 111100101 010100111 0010010101 1010100101 1010011101 010111101 1010110101 10100100101 1010101101 10100100111 00100100101 100110101 1011101011 010100100 110100101 0100110101 110100101 0011011111 010110101 111100101 1111001000 001111101 010010111 1010101111 10100101110 110010100 110011111 10110110101 110011100 0010010101 111101101 0010010111 110100101 1100100111 100100101 10101001001 010100111 100100111 10011101 111110101 010010101 111010101 1010100101 10100111 1100101001 10011101 011100101 110100101 010011101 010101001 100100101 11010111 0100100101 0010010101 10101001011 110100101 10110110 010100101 10010101 0100100101 010000101 1010100101 10100101 001110101 010110101 0101000111 011100111 011100101 10010011 111000101 0100100101 111100101 111111001 110100111 00101101111 100101101 110011101 0101001001 10110101 111100101 111010101 10010111 010100111 11110101 010101011 011011111 0100100100 1110111 010101001 101111101 11101001 010110101 111101001 10111011 1011111101 1010010100 100110101 010010101 010101101 0110101001 101110101 10101101 100100101 111010100 110101111 10101101 110100101 0111000111 101111111 111101111 011011111 10100110111 10011110 010100101 100110101 1010110111 011100101 1010100101 010000101 0010010101 010010101 1110101 1011001001 10010111 10111101 11110111 11110101 1111101 10110101 1110101 010101101 11100101 0100100101 1010010111 110010101 101110101 110100101 111010101 100100101 11010111 011101100 10110111 11100100 011010101 10111111 111100101 010110101 010101101 1010100101 011100101 01010101 10100101 100101101 1010010111 011100101 10011101 1100101101 0011100100 111110111 101010110 010110101 11101100 1010011101 010100101 1010101110 110010101 1010111001 0010101111 1011110101 110110100 1010010111 11011001 100100111 0010010101 10100100101 1010100101 1010101101 0010100101 0101101001 11011001 010100101 111100101 1011011101 100101111 010100101 010010101 010110101 010110101 110010101 1101001101 1010100101 111101001 001010101 110111001 11010111 100100001 011010100 01101101 10100111101 10011101 01010111 10010100 010101101 10100101 011100101 010010101 0101101001 01011111 011010101 0010100101 110110101 1010010011 1010011111 10100100101 111101011 1110100101 110110101 010011001 101100101 11100101 1100100111 010010101 110111011 010010100 110100111 101010101 10010101 110011110 10100101 110101101 10100101 111101101 1100101101 10011101101 100100111 010100111 101011101 10100101 101011001 01111111 110100101 110101111 101101111 111010111 010100101 111000111 011010110 0100101001 010101001 0101001010 0100101010 110100101 010101001 110100101 011100111 110111001 110100101 11100101 010010101 110110101 111100101 11100001 101110111 1001110001 1100101101 1011101101 110010100 10100111 11010111 10010111 1100101011 10101101 1010100101 0010101100 110101111 010100101 0011111010 00101101010 11101111 010100101 101010101 1100100101 1011011 010010101 11110101 110101101 01110101 010100101 101100111 100010101 01010101 010101101 11011001010 010100101 011110111 010100101 111100101 11001001001 111010101 110011101 011100101 110010101 10100101 1101001001 10011111 100100101 110010101 1010010111 100110101 1100101001 1001011001 0101101101 111110101 10100111 1010100101 0011110101 01001000101 11011101 110101101 110011101 0010110101 0100100100 010110101 101101101 100101001 100100101 10110101 10100101 110100011 111100111 101100101 100100101 1100100101 111101101 110100101 0011110101 1010010111 1010100111 1111100101 1101101101 1010110101 110101100 0110100101 1011100101 1010010110 110010111 01111101 100100101 001010101 110100101 10010101 0100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 689
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 413
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, and, in, or, he, by, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, it, and, when, who, under, no are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Preacher;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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