This is an analysis of the poem Poet's Obligation that begins with:
To whoever is not listening to the sea
this Friday morning, to whoever is cooped up...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdcecXfXd XbXXbaXgXfXdgfde Xae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,16,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001001100001 011100010011 01110100110 111111101 011110110110 101110010010 100101111010 01100101010 0100010101 0101000101 01101000010 1010101010100 11111100 1100110011 0101001010 1110100110 110010001001 11010101010 0101100101000 110101101 11110110 110110110 10111101 111111010 01010001 010101111 01001010 0110011101 11110101 0111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, to, and, i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, a are repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Poet's Obligation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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