This is an analysis of the poem His Pilgrimage that begins with:
GIVE me my scallop-shell of quiet,
My staff of faith to walk upon, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dbdbeeffgghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010 11010101 110101010 1100010 11010111 11111100 11011010 110101010 11111010 1000101010 1001010 10101010 1011 1101 11110101 01100101 11000101 11000111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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- summary of His Pilgrimage;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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