This is an analysis of the poem The Soul Forsaken that begins with:
Head-bowed I stood before the Gates of
God,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbaccXBD XbbeaaeBD fggfdbgBD hdXheeXBD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010 1 110100 011111 1101010111 0101 1101010101 1100 11011101 1000100 1101010110 110101 010101 1111010101 0101 1101011111 0101 11011101 1000100 1101010101 110101 010101 1111010101 0100 1101110101 0101 11011101 1000100 11010101001 111100 010100 0111110101 01 1101110100 1100 11011101 1000100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word eternally at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Soul Forsaken;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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