This is an analysis of the poem Indebted Lost Souls (Bright Minds Dimming) that begins with:
Success to achieve,
To identify oneself with images......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCDB bbaXXcb DDE DBF DaeX bbXffbf DDE DBFXABCCDB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,3,3,4,7,3,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001 00101110100 0101001 100111001 010010 01011 10111 011010 1001 110111 1100001 11010110 01011101011 1110 1101110 010111 1110 11000101001 11101010 1110 01001001 0110011010 110010111010 101011 11010 1111110 00010011100 111001 11011101 11000011101 1110 1101110 010111 1110 11000101001 11101010 01001 00101110100 0101001 100111001 010010 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word bright at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Indebted Lost Souls (Bright Minds Dimming);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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