This is an analysis of the poem Still The Mind Smiles that begins with:
Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions,
Knowing all the while that civilization and the other evils...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcXdXXabcaXXadc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101010 10101110010101010 110100010001 10000110110110110 101100101 100110100101101010 11101001001 101000110101001 0100100101 001010001011001010 01101001010 10110101011001 10101101 1111111011011 11100 011101111 110001001001100100 10001010001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 871
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; that, and, of, few are repeated.
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