This is an analysis of the poem Back To The Facts that begins with:
From minds the chains are gone.
From minds the chains are gone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAABBBcBDBE FdXdbb BBBcBDBE FADGF FADGFXBBBcBDBE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,8,5,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 010111 010111 010111 10 1001 100111 1 1001 01011101 1001 00111 01010 110101110 1110 11111111 0110110 0010100 10 1001 100111 1 1001 01011101 1001 00111 01010 010111 01010 00 10101 01010 010111 01010 00 10101 10 1001 100111 1 1001 01011101 1001 00111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; from, minds, chains, gone, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, back are repeated.
The author used the same word medieval 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 gone, facts are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word walls at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Back To The Facts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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