This is an analysis of the poem On Pain that begins with:
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses
your understanding. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX Xa bXc dde bf a af XX caXeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,3,2,1,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100011100 11010 101010011110 11100111111 11111101010 1010001111111 110111 11101010011 10111110100101 11011 11110010010 10011 10110110 000101011001001 11111 1110010110100 01011000 101110110101 01010001 10111101111 01000110101 10001101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines has is repeated).
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- summary of On Pain;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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