This is an analysis of the poem The Reward that begins with:
Who, looking backward from his manhood's prime,
Sees not the spectre of his misspent time?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccdeed ffXggX hhfhhf ffdbbd hhdiid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101000101 1101000011 1101 01001010101 1110010101 0011 1111010101 1111110001 1111 10110001001 1101110101 010001 0101011111 1111011001 1101 0101010101 1101000101 1110 11110101000 1101110101 0110 0101110111 0111010101 0101 01110011110 0101100101 0111 10011011001 10010010001 1111 1111011111 0101011111 0101 1101010101 1010011101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Reward;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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