This is an analysis of the poem The Problem that begins with:
I like the church; I like a cowl;
I love a prophet of the soul; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc dd eeaaffgghhggXchh eeaabXbbiibbccddjjee jjffiieebb iiffffeebbiibXddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,16,20,10,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11010001 111101010 11111101 11110111 1111100 11011101 11111101 10011101 01011101 10010101 01010100 10010101 01000101 01000101 10010101 10010101 01000111 01110101 110100101 10010100 01011111 11010111 01010101 11111111 01110001 11011001 100111001 11010111 0011110 11111101 11110101 11010101 10110101 110100101 01010100 101010101 11010101 110101001 11010101 11010101 01000001 11001101 01010101 11011101 11011101 01010101 001111011 101101101 01011101 100100101 10110101 10011101 11010101 011001010 111101010 01111101 010111001 11010101 11000101 11100101 01011101 11110101 01010111 11001101 11111001 01010111 100110100 01110011 1101101 11110111 11100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 426
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, like, of, he, and, them, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, still are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Problem;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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