This is an analysis of the poem The Living Past that begins with:
FAITHFUL souls that watch and yearn,
Expectant of the coming light,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede fXXX dfdf gaga bebe dhdh babX ibib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1011111 01000101 01011111 01010101 01011000 10110111 11100101 11010101 00110101 01010101 100100101 11010111 11011111 11011010 11010111 11010001 110110101 01011101 11110111 11000101 11110101 11001111 10111101 01010101 11011111 01000100 01110111 11010001 01001101 11011101 01010101 01010111 01111101 11110101 110100111 110111100 11110111 11010011 110101001 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, the, i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Living Past;
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- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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