This is an analysis of the poem Sussex that begins with:
GOD gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdededFGDG hihijdjX kjkjdddd Xieilmlm ehehhhhf hhhhdede ngngddgd ihihhdhd XdddXhXh aoaoegegXababFGDG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 111111 01111111 10101 11110101 110101 10110111 111000 11110110 111101 11011101 011001 10011101 0111001 00110011 110101 11010101 1100101 11110111 111101 11110111 110101 10110101 110001 10100111 111101 01110111 110101 11011111 110111 01010101 011101 11010110 110101 11010101 010101 11011111 111101 01110111 010101 11110001 111101 10010101 101101 01110101 110101 10111111 110101 110111001 0100101 11011101 011101 11011111 100101 01010101 111101 11010111 0101111 01110101 111111 11110101 110101 11111111 111101 10110101 101101 10110100 1100101 111100101 010101 11110101 110101 10110101 101111 11110111 111101 11110100 100101 1101111 111101 10011111 101101 110011111 111101 11011111 011101 10011101 100101 11111101 111101 10111111 010101 10011101 0111001 00110011 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, one, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Sussex;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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