This is an analysis of the poem Felt That Without Description that begins with:

When love came to us...
Where were the conditions? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbXcad Abceef AfXcXXX eXXXccccaXceadfe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 100010 1011110 10110010 10100101 010010 11101 1011101001 110001010 10010111 11111 0101000100 11101 111110 101010 1111001 110101 01010100001 010 111011110 11111011 1000111 1110101 111101010 101011000111 00101010 10110100111 11010 1111011 110101 00100011 01111 110101110 11 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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; it is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

  • summary of Felt That Without Description;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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