This is an analysis of the poem Apology that begins with:
For blows on the fort of evil
That never shows a breach,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacded fedefghg XiXiXhgh fcccXjbjXegbgeiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 110101 11001110 0011111 11010010 0101001 101010010 1011101 101101010 10101101 110011111 010101 1101010 001101 1100010 1101001 11110010 110111 110101101 110101 11111010 1101010 01011110 01101010 110110110 0101111 111110010 1101001 0101000101 010101 00101100101 0101101 11101110 10100111 01011010 00101111 1111110 01111011 11011110 00111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Apology;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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