This is an analysis of the poem This Is Not The Way To Find The Essence Of Truth that begins with:
This is not the way to find the essence of truth, O Pundits!
Even with all these heaps of bookish learning,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCACdXA debedA ffeffXA Xeda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,7,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010101001110 10011101010 11100110110101 001010101001110 11100110110101 1111101110101 11001101111 001010101001110 010010010 1101011010 10110100101 010100110101 1010110011011101 001010101001110 100101011110 1000010111110 110101001001110 11110100011 1010101111 10100011101001 001010101001110 011110010101 11100010001 100110101 11101011100111010111101001110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
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; of, in, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word pundits at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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