This is an analysis of the poem I Have Searched My Soul that begins with:
I have searched my soul,
With a deepness......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXBXb AXB BCBcBCBC DEFDfXeAXf BCBcBCBC AXB DEFAXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,8,10,8,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 0010 1001 1010001 1010001 11111 0010 1001 101 1100 101 10100 101 110 11101 1111 11 11111 1110111 11 110100 10111 1 11111 0010 111111 101 1100 101 10100 101 110 11101 1111 11111 0010 1001 11 11111 1110111 11111 0010 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
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; no, more, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word complete at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of I Have Searched My Soul;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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