This is an analysis of the poem Pulchritudinous that begins with:
Why are those people strutting around,
With such a pulchritudinous arrogance....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cacbXdaX decf bfbddXX dXb XdcXaXX eeb gbcgXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,7,3,7,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101001 01010000100 1010101 10101110 1101101010 11011010 101010010100 0101010100 0101011000010 11010010101 1111001 0010001100 1 10111 0001 0100 11 1111010100 10 11010 1011001001 11101010010 10111100 11100101101 11010010 0100100 1 10011111 10001 1 10010 1110101010010 1010 111 11 01110 11 101101 10110 10 101 0101 0110110 11110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines one is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Pulchritudinous;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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