This is an analysis of the poem Chapter 9 - The Seven Selves that begins with:
In the stillest hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven selves sat together and thus conversed in whisper:
First Self: Here, in this...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a X b b a b a b X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010001111101110110101101010 1110011111110010110101111101010111111111011110 101100101111010010010001010111010110101010111110101001111001110010 111101011010101011010100100010111111001011 111011110110001111011100101010100010101101100110111010110011 11100101010100101010110110100110100111111010001111110 1111010101001001010111011001001001101010011010100101010111100101011 1011111111001010111100101101011010111101101010001011111110110101110011011110111101010100111101110 1010111010111010011111011101110110010101100001110010 1010101101101100100111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 215 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 41
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, self, his, this, to, my, in, it, of, rebel, you, who, one, would, against, but are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines madman is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word madman at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Chapter 9 - The Seven Selves;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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