This is an analysis of the poem With First Steps Taken that begins with:
In it from the beginning!
With first steps taken and a curiousness....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbac DEC AXbadc DECF gGG XGG GHGG DECF bcgc iGC GHGbG iGCXig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,6,4,3,3,4,4,4,3,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0000010 0111010100 1 00010 11111111 10111 111 10111 0000010 0111010100 1 010010 1111 11111011 10111 111 10111 1101 1011101010011 110 110 10111101011 110 110 101011101 11011111 110 110 10111 111 10111 1101 01111011100111 11 1110 01110 1011101 111101110 0111110 101011101 11011111 110 11 110 01011101 111101110 0111110 1010101 01110110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; i, wanted, it, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word like at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wanted is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words touched, wanted, it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of With First Steps Taken;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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