This is an analysis of the poem From One's Soul that begins with:
When a rawness has rubbed off,
And one knows they have paid the cost......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABbXbb CBBC CBBC Decb DXbb CBBC ABXDebC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 11111101 0111010 0111010 011010101 101001100 1101 111111 10100100 00100101 1101 111111 10100100 00100101 101011 0110111 011000101 11010111 101011 011010 00100100 1111101 1101 111111 10100100 00100101 1010111 11111101 011010 101011 1 0100100 00100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The author used the same words raise, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words gets, fit at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of From One's Soul;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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