This is an analysis of the poem The Idealist that begins with:
Oh you who have daring deeds to tell!
And you who have felt Ambition's spell!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb dddbcccb eeeXfffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 111111001 1110011101 00101001 111111111 111110101 101001001001 111101001 1110100101 1110101101 0010011111 1100001 1111100101 1110100101 1011110111 00101001 011100101 10010010001 011111111 1111010 111111101 1110100101 11110111111 1110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who, have, you, he, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word queen at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Idealist;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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