This is an analysis of the poem Voluntary that begins with:
HERE in the quiet eve
My thankful eyes receive... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcccb ddefffe gghbbXh ffifffi eecjXjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 110101 0101 110111 010101 111101 0011 101101 101101 01011 111101 110111 011111 1101 110111 110101 1111 110111 110111 100110 1101 110101 110101 0101 010101 010101 010111 1111 111111 110101 1111 111111 111100 110101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Voluntary;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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