This is an analysis of the poem Excerpts From A Study Guide that begins with:
Teach him not to seek
Where he has been taught to find......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab bcc def bc cag chg Xdh Xfd hgb fXi iie Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 1110101 110001 0100010101 1101001 01011001 000100100111 01100111101 11100101 010110111111 0101101 10101100101 1000110010111 110101 111111001 001010111 10101100100 1111101111 0100011101111 110100011001 1101110010111 1111101101011 1010111 1110101 0001010001 11111 11111 1110101 0110101101 111111101 101001101101 111 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 55
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, him, your, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Excerpts From A Study Guide;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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