This is an analysis of the poem The Reality Of Things that begins with:
The reality of things,
Often pricks and stings....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAABAAAC DDa DDE XXafe DDEfXAAABAAAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,3,5,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010001 10111 0010001 1111110 0010001 10111 1100001 101010 0100010011 010111 0100111 0100010011 010111 010011101 1100111101 10110011100 11010101 1001 101101101 0100010011 010111 010011101 01101110101 0010001 10111 0010001 1111110 0010001 10111 1100001 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 traumatic 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 The Reality Of Things;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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