This is an analysis of the poem Four Riddles that begins with:
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There was an ancient City, stricken down... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a baba cdcX aX X bdbX efXf bgbg hdhd gbgb ijij kbkb bbbb eXXk kkkk eXeX lmXm X bdbd nini nbnb XabX odod kkkk X efpfaaA XkekaaA lfhfaXA X ecXec ckccX kpkkp acaac bkbbkXcdccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,2,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,7,7,7,1,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1111010101 00110111001 1101010101 110101 110101111 1100010111 110010100111 1111010 111111001 1111010011 1111 11010100101 1101111101 0101000101 11010100 01110110011 1101110101 0111011010 0100101 0101010101 0101110111 1111010111 110101 1111000101 01110111010 110110101 0110111 1101011101 01010101110 11001110111 0101010 1101010101 0101110101 0111010100 010011 1101010101 11011111010 0101011101 0101110 1011011101 11010111010 1101010101 10110010 1111011101 11011101010 0101110100 110111 11111111010 11010111010 11010101010 1010010 11010100101 1111100101 0111110111 10101100 0101011101 0111110101 11001110010 110101 1 10011111 01011101 01111101 11010100 1101110101 1011110111 0111011101 11100011101 11011111001 1001110001 1111010101 0111111101 11011101100 1111010101 1010111001101 101011111110 0101011110 10010101001 11111100010 1111110101 1111111101 10110011010 01010100101 11010101010 1 01010101 110101010 11110100 110111110 11010101 11110111 1101 111111010 0101010010 100100101 110101010 11110011 11110111 1101 11111101 110101010 11010101 010101010 1011101101 110111100 1101 1 11010011 1100110 11010100 11010101 0101010 11010101 1101010 01011101 10110101 1100100 11011101 0101010 11010111 11010101 0101010 11010111 1101010 11011111 11010101 1100010 11110101 01010010 01110101 01010101 0111010 01010101 0101110 01110111 11011101 0111110
- Amount of stanzas: 35
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 143
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, with, o, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, doubt, my are repeated.
The author used the same words and, my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word day 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 Four Riddles;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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