This is an analysis of the poem What The Voice Said that begins with:

MADDENED by Earth's wrong and evil,
'Lord!' I cried in sudden ire,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcc dece ffXf XgXX Xfhf dafa aidi hjej dgkg klkl Xccc dada Xaca fkmk hfaf mlaX dbhb kndn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111110 1110101 11111010 101010 10111010 0010101 10101010 10001 10101010 1010101 10101110 10111 10111111 1011101 10111011 10111 101010100 1010101 10011010 11101 10101110 1110101 10101010 10111 11111010 0110111 11011010 11101 11111010 10010111 01101010 01101 11111010 0110111 111010010 10101 10111010 1000111 11101010 100111 1010101 10101010 00110010 1010010 10111010 10101100 10111010 10011 11011110 1011101 10111010 10111 10111010 1011111 00101110 10111 11111010 1011101 01001010 10011 10111110 0110101 10101110 10010 11101010 1010101 100101110 11101 11101010 1011101 10101010 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; ', of, his are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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

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