This is an analysis of the poem Your Fears that begins with:
Reaching to seek what is imagined mythically,
And worshipped to seduce fears......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XABCdXXe AEAFAGG AEAFAGG XABCdXXe AEAFAGG AXAXAEX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,7,8,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001100101000 1100011 0110101010001 00100001001001000 01 010101100000 01001001001100 11010101111 11 111010111 11 1110101101 11 111110101 011010011001 11 111010111 11 1110101101 11 111110101 011010011001 1001100101000 1100011 0110101010001 00100001001001000 01 010101100000 01001001001100 110101011111 11 111010111 11 1110101101 11 111110101 011010011001 11 110110010010 11 11011101101 11 111010111 011110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, your, you are repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word recall at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Your Fears;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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