This is an analysis of the poem The Answer that begins with:
Then what is the answer?- Not to be deluded by dreams.
To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadXedfcfaebaXgag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001010001011 011110010110100100 1110110101 11010001001001011 0110101101010 01110100010011000 1111101101 1101010101100110 1001 010111110100101 01011000101 0110111100000111 1010011010101 10011000100100010 010100 01010010011100110 001011111 0101111011100010 1100110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1032
- Average number of words per stanza: 164
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, wholeness are repeated.
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- summary of The Answer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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