This is an analysis of the poem The Revelation that begins with:
The same old sprint in the morning, boys, to the same old din and smut;
Chained all day to the same old desk, down in the same old rut;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc ddee ffaa gghh eegg iijj ggbbXffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111001010011111 11100111100111 10011101100111 110110010101101101 110010100111001001 110110101111011001 11001001011100111 111110110111111001 11010010100100111 11010010100110101 1110010011100111011 10111101100101 111110010110110101 11110101011010101 010010010010100111 1101001011101001 111111001010100101 1011010011110110101 101111010111101101 01111010100101101 11110111010111100 10111001101111 1101001011111001 001111111100101101 11110101011100101 1101111011101011 1101001010111111 1101111111110111 11111110100101 1101111011111111 1111111011100101 10101001001111101 110110001111011001 10110010110101101 01001101111011001 11011011111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 72 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; old, same, to, we're, with, and, of, we'll, men, us, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we'll are repeated.
The author used the same word don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Revelation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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