This is an analysis of the poem Pity that begins with:
She is a spirit who has set her arms
Around the world, and every hunted ill...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effe deed gddg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001011101 01011100101 1001110011 1101010101 10110111010 1111110001 01010011101 0011001100 1111111111 1011010101 11011010101 10001011101 1111010101 0101010111 1101001101 1101110101 1011000111 1101010011 1101110111 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 Pity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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