This is an analysis of the poem So Much Trust Has Faded Away that begins with:
So much trust has faded away,
From a once rich and vast abundant sea......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAaBC Xdefgga hXXdfc cfbcffae AAaBC cbbd bieffa XhXdXedcbi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,6,8,5,4,6,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001 0011110101 1 1111110 1110101010 111010100 0010101 111110 100 10010100 00100 101010101 01101 0100010010 001001110 1101 11010100 10101111 11110100 100101 00101110011 11101111 11011101 1101001010 11110101 01000101101010 11111001 0011110101 1 1111110 1110101010 111110001 0010101001 1111 011100100111 1101010010 1011011101 110010010 1010011 101001 10111101 11011 110101010010 1001 0111 1101001001 001110100 0101001001001 10011101101 0010010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to 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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of So Much Trust Has Faded Away;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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