This is an analysis of the poem Unless And Until You Have Grasped The Essence Of The Self that begins with:
Unless and until you have grasped the essence of the Self
Vain are all your efforts and like unseasonal rains,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC cXbbXABC XdXXABC XdbeXABC eXXXABC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,7,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101111010001 1111101110001 11101101 11011100101 110111110 110111111101 110111011110 1101111111 01101111010001 1111101110001 11101101 11010101010101110100 110111110101 11011111111010 11011010010 01101111010001 1111101110001 11101101 110110100110 1101011011001 1101110010 01011000100 11011010001001 01101111010001 1111101110001 11101101 1111001110110 011110100010 11001010010 11011010110010 01101111010001 1111101110001 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, have, so, and, what, if, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word birth at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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