This is an analysis of the poem What Is Felt To Feel that begins with:

Who can forget,
That which for them had existed....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABacac daefXa ecafbd ABbbdX ebaXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 11101010 010001 1111010 1001101 110101010 101101010 111000100 110100110 110110100 11001000101 01101101 1110101100 10101010010 1100 1010010100 100110010 0101 1101 11101010 1111101001 101011010101 101111 0100100100010 1111101 0010101101 00111 010111 101011011 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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

  • summary of What Is Felt To Feel;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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