This is an analysis of the poem Isn'T It The Image that begins with:
A dignifying of a known decadence,
To adorn and dress to impress......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaBCDAE BAFAF eBAFAF ebCeC BCaCFAF aBCDAEXeBCBCBCCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,6,5,7,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100001100 00111001 00111101011 1 000010 1111010 101010 10101001100 00110010 000010 110 1010 01100 101 1 000010 110 1010 01100 101 1 00110 000 010010 000 000010 000 1110 000 1010 01100 101 1 000010 1111010 101010 10101001100 00110010 1 000010 000 000010 000 000010 000 000 000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
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, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word isn't is repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word defends at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Isn'T It The Image;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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