This is an analysis of the poem Unload that begins with:
It is the Spirit that knows.
It is the Spirit that shows, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAB AAC BdE BdE AAC AAB fGHfGHI BdE fGHI AAC BdEgcfGHIgG fGHIGXgagbgbG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,7,3,4,3,11,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001011 0001011 101011101 0001011 101011 1011010001 1011010011 1 101010101001 1011010011 1 101010101001 0001011 101011 1011010001 0001011 0001011 101011101 1 1101110001 010111 1 1101110001 010111 111010 1011010011 1 101010101001 1 1101110001 010111 111010 0001011 101011 1011010001 1011010011 1 101010101001 1 1000101110101 11 1101110001 010111 111010 011010110100001 011010110101001 1 1101110001 010111 111010 011010110101001 01 1010 01 101 01 10010111001 011010110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 58
- 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:
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; it, spirit, that, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, if are repeated.
The author used the same words it, trials at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words step, refused at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Unload;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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