This is an analysis of the poem Dumbness that begins with:
Sure Man was born to meditate on things,
And to contemplate the eternal springs ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaaffgghhiiaajjjjggddeeccddiiaagbddhhbbddkkddjjjjgglliimmccaajjjjhhhhggeXkknngg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 88,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010111 10101001001 01110101110 111110010010 1111011111 1001010100 1111011110 11000110101 1101111111 1001111101 0101100101 1101010101 1101011111 110111001 1100010101 1101111101 011101111 1101011011 01011011111 1111011101 1101000101 1101010101 1111111011 0111000101 0111010001 1100110101 01110100101 1101010101 11011111101 0101010111 1011010101 0111010111 1101111111 1011100101 1111010111 1110011101 11010011111 1111110011 1111010101 0111010100 0100111001 01010011010 1001011111 10011010101 10010101001 0111010100 01100101010 10010101010 0101010101 011101011101 01100100001 011100011 0101111101 0101000101 01010110101 1101010101 0111010011 0101010101 0011010111 1101010101 110011100101 110010101001 0100110011 0100010101 01000111101 1001111101 0101010111 11011100101 1111010011 0101011111 1111010001 1101010101 1101000101 0100111101 11010101001 0101001111 0111011011 10001001101 1011110001 0110110001 0101011101 0111111110 0101011101 1100010101 0101010101 11110011111 1101001011 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3835
- Average number of words per stanza: 691
- Amount of lines: 88
- 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; and, my, before, i, all, to, in, every are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words before, there, twas, to, and are repeated.
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- summary of Dumbness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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