This is an analysis of the poem Forward that begins with:
I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes
In weary, woeful, waiting times;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabbccXdddaA eebbffggddccee hhccaabbcccc ffggii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,14,12,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 01010101 010100101 11110100 11000101 01011101 01110110 110111001 11011101 11101101 11010101 11011101 110010101 01000101 11011101 11111101 11011101 110100010 11010111 11011101 01010101 11011101 010010101 010011101 11111101 11110101 11110111 11011101 10111101 11011100 11011101 01010001 11101101 11011101 11011101 01010101 11010011 11010101 11010111 11000101 10100111 11001101 11010101 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; in, by, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, by, i've, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Forward;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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