This is an analysis of the poem The Anticipation that begins with:
My contemplation dazzles in the End
Of all I comprehend, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaXcc ccddEedcc aaeecbfgg cbhhddhii jjhhXXbcb kkEfchcch fEiXlhlhh efbbggbcc cXccfechh ffggmmgbc ffggXhhdh cbllbbdld iXiimmill
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101010001 011101 110111 1000010101 110101 011101 10010011000 1111000101 10110100101 0111011001 111101 011111 11110011101 010100 001100 111111101 01001101010 1101001110 0101011101 111101 010100 0101000100 011011 110001 0111110101 01010100110 11010011010 0101010100 010011 010100 01011100001 11101 011101 01001011100 0001110101 0111010101 11011001001 01001001 111101 0101010111 101111 0010111 1111010100 0101010110 0011000011 0101011101 111101 010100 0101101010 100101 011101 1101110101 1001010101 1001110111 0101100100 010100 010001 1101010100 0101011 110100 0111000111 1101100101 0101010101 1101000100 111100 011111 1100100110 1001010 0101110 1101000101 01010101110 11010111110 1100010101 110111 1111010 11000111010 111111 000100 01110111010 0101110100 1111100101 1111010111 110101 1111010 11110001010 1100101 110111 01011111110 1111110101 0111010010 0100111011 111110 0101110 01010001010 001110 011101 0001000101 1111110101 1011110101 0101010010 111101 011101 1001011111 0101001 1101001 0101110101 01111111101 1111001101 1001001101 010100 110011 10010011101 111111 111101 1101010001 1001100111 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 117
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; all, joys, his, and, no, he, holy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, the, his, and are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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- summary of The Anticipation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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