This is an analysis of the poem The Whole Soul that begins with:
Is it long as a noodle
or fat as an egg? Is it ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddeXbbbfgbhbdbdiXjeiikiegijleiXkdammhbXfgihihbmaibelhgmicefbfdbid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011010 1111100 10100111 111111 1011010 0111101 01110 1001001 0101101 110010 111010 1010111 110001 0101000 11001010 111111 011101 101101 0010101 011011 010001010 1001101 1010110 001101 100000101 1010100111 01001110 10111 010111010 01111010 010101001 011111 0101110 0110110 10111 1101001 110011100 011010 00101010 1111101 10011011 10101011 10010101 110101 1100101 101100110 011010 0110001 11111 10010110 1010110 101111 0110111 1111010 011011 111110 1101110 10111010 1101110 111001 1010111 11001100 11110011 110100110 1101100 1011100 11101010 100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1968
- Average number of words per stanza: 367
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
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- summary of The Whole Soul;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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