This is an analysis of the poem The 'Utopia' that begins with:

The table was filled with many objects
The wild tribesmen in the hills,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcd efbcbXagbXeh cabhbeXc ihXad gai jbkX bXaefeaedbh dXkh XbhfXbhehhei lldcXjaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,12,8,5,3,4,11,4,12,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101101010 0110001 110101010001 001001010 111101010101010111001 10101111 1001001110 0100110101 10010000100100 001001 1010010010 1001101010 101001101101 0011000101101 101001101 01010110111 101010001101 01001011010100 1011010010 1101001011 11100101 1101001010 00100001110 101110101 11111010100 111110001 110010111 10101101110101 111010 11010101011 111111101 01010101100 10101000001 11001001 100111 1011000010101 1001111010 11001110001 0100101011011 11001000100110 10110011010 1101001010 1010101111 0110111101010011 0110000110010 10100101010 101101001010 01010111011000010 100101010110 01011110 010100101001 111010101 01110101 01001001 11001010110 01010010011010 000100101010 100101 11101011 01010010011 10101 0100111001 1111011 10101110011 1011101010 0110100100 10101101010 1010010 01001101010 101000101100 01000
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The 'Utopia';
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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