This is an analysis of the poem Meditation that begins with:
With sadness I survey our present generation!
Their future seems so empty, dark, and cold,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbcdcdefef gXgfXaaaahahababibib adXdjdjd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,20,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011011010 1101110111 1101010101010 0100110101 11011101010 010011110001 1101010110110 110011111 101101000010 110101110111 1101010101010 011111010011 01011101010 110001110101 1101011101010 010011000111 1111110101010 0101000011110 01010101010 1101010111 1111010101000 1101101101 01001110101010 1101110101 010101110010 001100110101 1100010100010 111100010101 1111111101010 111101110110 1101110101010 100010101 0110111101010 110101000101 1100110100110 01110101 0101110111010 110101010011 1111111101000 1101000101 1100010111010 010001011101 0101000111010 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 705
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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- summary of Meditation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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