This is an analysis of the poem Pain With An Anguish that begins with:

A pain with an anguish,
Comes to be delivered......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbX Acd dbbdXX cXbef ffgX AHIAHG aHdh AHIAHG AGHBG AGHBG eGejGeGejG
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,5,4,6,4,6,5,5,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010110 100010 11101010 010110 00010 1 101001010 1010001 1 10010010 010111 101101001 1 1001110 111000101 10110100101 11101101 101010100 0010111100 1111001111 01101000101 01110 101101 110 10110 100111101 010101001 1110 101101 1110101010 1111111 01110 101101 110 10110 100111101 010101001 10110 01101001 01 1110101 110101001 010110 01101001 01 1110101 110101001 1 00101100101 1 0 0101100101 1 00101100101 1 0 0101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; to, their are repeated.

    The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word hell at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Pain With An Anguish;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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