This is an analysis of the poem The Soul And The Spirit Of The Race that begins with:

When I went down the gallery,
A million shapes of clay...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacc dbbdbb eXXeff effeab fXXfbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110100 010101 100101 011100100 11110101 010101 11100011 1011 111111 11010101 01111101 010111 11010101 011100 011101 10111101 1111011 110111 10010111 110101 111001 11011011 10010100 111101 101101111 111110 100101 100101101 01011101 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.

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  • summary of The Soul And The Spirit Of The Race;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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