This is an analysis of the poem A Mind Gone that begins with:
No one can say today,
They are immuned from a mind gone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcabDEFG AgXgcXX bdbchf idccXfgbcihjXXaddbj hbDEFGdj jgfhXffbfcfcdif bhXff baX iecgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,6,19,8,15,5,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111101 111000011 0110101100 1110011001 01101 01101 0011100100 0101110110 111001101 111101 00010001 101101 111111 1110010111 10010001 1110111101 111100101 1100010 1110111001 1100111110 111111 11011100101 11110 01010010 110100101101001 10110 1110001011 1101111 0101110101111 010010001011 11010111 10101010 101001 10111100100010 11 011111100 1110111 101111011 11110010101 11101101 01000101010 10001 011 01101 0011100100 0101110110 111001101 110110101 010 0100110 01001 0101011 111111111 111111 11101 1111101011 101010011 1000100101101 0111101 10111000100 110110101 1010100101 11010 01011111 111 1010101010010 1101010110000 010101010 01000100011 11111 11001 11010010101 1110 1101101011000 11111111101 11001010101 11110001001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, or, to are repeated.
The author used the same words no, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Mind Gone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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