This is an analysis of the poem Fear Of The Inexplicable that begins with:

But fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverished
the existence of the individual; the relationship between...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdbXeXX fbXcadegbfe agachhifghgiafifggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101001101010 001000101000010101 1101010101100110 11010101001010 10101001110011110 1011010100101001 1001001100101010 0101011000001001 1000001001101010000 0100011111111001 1101110101101101 101100110000010010 001011001100110100 0010101011000100 01010010101101001100 1110101100100110 110100101111111 11110100100111100 101000111101101000 110011010110010 11010000100100101 11101110011111101 1110101101011101 1111011001000111 1011101010111100 0001010011101111 1111101010000000 010011011111100 011110010111010 111101010010100101 1101111101010101 0111010011001101 111111001001111 1101011000011111 111101110100011 1010110110110100 1000110100111100 11101001111001101 10110000010101010 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 813
  • Average number of words per stanza: 145
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, we, our, it, to, us, that, most are repeated.

    The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Fear Of The Inexplicable;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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