This is an analysis of the poem To The Locust that begins with:
Thou pulse of hotness, who, with reed-like breast,
Makest meridian music, long and loud,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcdd dededXdff ghghdhddd Xifidfdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 10010010111 0101010111 0101010101 010000011101 1101111101 01010111001 0111010001 10011010101 1101010101 1111010111 1001100111 0101110011 1001011111 110010101110 1111111101 00101110101 1111111101 1101110101 0100010101 0101110111 0101010111 1001010101 0101001101 1001110001 1111010101 1011010101 1101010100 1011110011 1111010101 1001010111 1101010101 10010010101 1001000111 0101010100 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, sleepy are repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To The Locust;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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