This is an analysis of the poem The God Called Poetry that begins with:

Now I begin to know at last,
These nights when I sit down to rhyme,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaccb ddeedde ffffff gaaga fcfddcdXg hhijikkX lllllmmX jjggnnllnX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,5,9,8,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 11111101 01110011 111100111 11110101 010101001 110111010 10101110 10010101 11010111 011111010 011111010 10011001 1010101 1010111 11010111 0011111 11011111 11010101 11111101 11111101 1010111 110111101 11111101 01111111 11011000 11110011 010101110 01010110010 11110101 111111010 10111010 1011101 01111101 1010110 11111101 1011001 1111011 1011111 1010011 0110101 01111101 1011001 111111001 1011011 10110111 11110011 1110101 10001111 11000101 010010101 1111111 1111111 1111101 1010101 11010101 11101111 10111111 01011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; older, than, he, and, you, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The God Called Poetry;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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