This is an analysis of the poem Works-In-Progress that begins with:
Pain!
Much of it, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBBCB dbecdX feecfe bcXecgcb aecXc aBBCBXbXgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,8,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 100 111010 0100111 10101010 001001 11100 1110001 00100 111001 101101 1101110100 11100111 11011100 0010111101 101000 1110 110110100 11010 1101 11110 1011 11110 1100110 0001001 10110010 1010111 1010001 10111010 011101 1 100 111010 0100111 10101010 111111 1101010 001 00010 01011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word god is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Works-In-Progress;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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