This is an analysis of the poem In These Times Not Before Explored that begins with:
Treasured are such kept beliefs,
We keep them worshipped 'and' confessed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb XBXAbDBB bEBBBBeBBB bEbEXEc XBXAbDBBE BBEBBEBBXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,10,7,9,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 11010101 010101011 111001101 110110100 1010001101 110110100 1110001 1 100110 0101 111 1 01110101 10101011100010 11 10101011100010 11 101110101 10101011100010 11 111 1010111010 01110101 11011101001 01110101 11010101101010 01110101 110101 110110100 1010001101 110110100 1110001 1 100110 0101 111 01110101 10101011100010 111 01110101 10101011100010 111 01110101 10101011100010 11 1 11
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; not is repeated.
The author used the same word yet 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 yet is repeated).
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- summary of In These Times Not Before Explored;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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