This is an analysis of the poem The Trial By Existence that begins with:
EVEN the bravest that are slain
Shall not dissemble their surprise ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdXde fbfbghgh didijbjb dcdcbebe kfkfXlbl ciXibaba dmdmgcgc alaldXdl enenbdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111 11010101 11001101 101110101 11110101 11010010 01101101 01010101 010101111 10110001 011100101 011100101 01010101 11010101 11010011 00110101 10011001 010000111 01010101 01000011 10110101 01111101 11110111 10010011 10110011 01110101 01111001 01011101 101100111 01010101 01000101 11100101 11110110 10110111 11010011 01011001 11010011 11001101 11100011 10011001 10110001 11001101 01000100 01010001 010110001 11011101 10111011 10110101 11111101 11010001 01011111 010011101 10110111 01110001 10101101 011101001 11011001 10110101 10110101 10111101 1111001001 110011100 01010111 10010111 10010011 11110101 010100111 11111101 10111111 11110101 00111111 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; light, and, are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Trial By Existence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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