This is an analysis of the poem With Thought And Vision that begins with:
Not too often am I amazed.
Or can say I am bewildered these days, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbXbcd eabdafbgbcgXffebcbaag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101 1111101011 10101110 1101 101011100 101001101 11101111 00110011010 1110110110 11111010 11 10100100 10010011 1110101010 0111010 011110 010011011 11011011 0110010 1011101 0110110001 1011 1010000110 01000111 1010 1011 10100101010001 10101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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 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 author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase changes connects the lines.
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- summary of With Thought And Vision;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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