This is an analysis of the poem Habakkuk that begins with:
Now leave the Porch, to vision now retreat,
Where the next rapture glows with varying heat;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdbbccddaa eeffbbgghh hhhhccffeehhdd cchhbbff ccaahhgg hhaa hhdXffee gghhdX hheeaa hhee ddhhbbbbhh iiccaaccddhhhhhhhhffeecc hhhhjjhhdd eeaaffggbbffgghhhhhheeccee bbkkiihh ddffhhllccaagg ccbbllcccc ffddcccckk ffmmeehhllbbcchhXddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,10,14,8,8,4,8,6,6,4,10,24,10,26,8,14,10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 10110101001 1101110101 01001010101 01010010101 0111011101 1101011111 1101111001 0111110101 1011110101 1101010101 1101000101 1101000101 1101010111 0101011101 0101000101 1001111101 01110010101 1001010111 1101000111 1101011101 0111010101 11111100101 1111010101 1101011101 1011110101 1001111101 11011101001 0101110101 1111010101 110110111 0101110101 1101011101 1111000101 1101010101 1111010101 1011010101 0101010101 1101010111 1101011101 11110010101 1001000101 1111010101 1101110101 1111011101 1011110101 1111011101 1111110101 1101100111 1101010100 1101111111 1101010111 1111011101 1111000101 0100110101 1111110101 1101100101 1111110101 01010101101 10110000101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101111101 1011011111 0111010111 1101010101 1101111111 1001010101 11010100011 1110101010 1001010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101110101 1111010111 0101010001 0101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1111010101 1111011111 1111110011 10001010101 10001111101 11101100111 0101011101 1101011101 1111001011 1101011101 1101010101 0101011101 0101010101 1111011101 10001010111 1101010101 1001110101 11010010101 11010110001 1101010101 1101010011 1111111110 10101111001 0101000101 01011110011 1101000101 1101110101 1011110101 1101010101 0011000101 1101010101 1011110101 1101110101 0101110101 1101010101 11010100001 1101010101 1011110101 1101110101 1101010111 1111010101 11010000101 1111111101 1111010101 01111100101 0101010101 1101010101 11010101001 1101010101 0101010111 1001110101 1001111101 0110010101 10110110101 0111110101 1110010101 1101110101 1101011101 1111011101 1011011101 1111010111 0101010101 1011110101 1101011101 01011110011 0101000101 1111110101 1111010101 1101010101 0101011101 1111111001 0101010111 11011010111 1111010111 1101001101 1101011011 1111010101 1011101101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101000101 1111000101 1011110101 1111010101 1011001111 1011011101 1101010001 0111111111 1111011101 1001101111 010100101 0101110011 1101010101 1101111111 110010010101 1101010101 1101000101 0101010101 10101010101 1111010101 11001010101 1101011011 0101010111 11111101001 1111101101 11010011111 1111010101 1111111101 1101010111 1001011011 0101000101 1101010101 1111010111 0101111101 1101010001 0101110001 1011011101 0111111101 1111010101 1101110101 1111011101 0101011101 0111010111 1011011111 1001010101 1101111101 0101010111 1011010001 1101011101 10011011101 1111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 482
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 216
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; now, of, my, and, as, to, 'twas, thy, he, tho', yet, what, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'twas, the, e'en, thy, tho', yet, what, and, see are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Habakkuk;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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