This is an analysis of the poem His Defeat that begins with:
Why are they cheering so enthusiastically?
'They've just blown up their own foundations.'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bcd XXc cXeX XfX X agXX babdcbc bgc f XeeXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,4,3,1,4,7,3,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010100 111111100 1 1100010 0 110111101 10011110010 11001 111 11001010101 01 001101010101 1 11110111 00111 1 101100 110101 100111 0111011 1 01101010 1010101 110 111111 10101001 01100100 111 110011 11001 1101 100 111 110 110110 010 11001111010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; to, they are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of His Defeat;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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