This is an analysis of the poem The Enigma that begins with:

Pale victims, where is your Fatherland?
Where oppression is law from age to age,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbaaaaacccaddda eeeaeeeafffaaaggXgaahhhaiiiaaajjja
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,34,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110101101 1010010101 101011011001 110010111 10100101101 1011110111 11110111001 01001001001 101100101 11101101001 10101101001 1011111111 110101111 1111110111 10110110101 10101100111 1100101101 1101110101 1100111110 11100100101 110111111 11111101111 11100111101 1101101111 110111001 11111001011 10010101 0101101101 01110101101 11111101 1111101101 001010101 0011110111 00101110111 01011101001 1101100101 111101101 011010101 001001011111 10100101001 1010101111 1111101101 1111110101 1101101101 011101101 111101101 011111111 11111100101 100100101 100100101 111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 205
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, where, their, our, to, we, with, as, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, we, with, go are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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