This is an analysis of the poem Underground that begins with:
ON a queer, queer journey
I heard the queerest sound,–...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdbe ffgf hfX iededei dhjhbhk ElklmlX nkmkjXb KfKfafX aabakXf hnmndnk hkhkXkf kmlmlmX Xbebjbd OH hhihd heoehen figibXk abdbkbb kbkbabb OHoh Xhf cdidoXn knbnonh bhdhdja oekXlel opopbpX khghkhk aoaokof obbbabfXEfgfbfl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,3,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,2,5,7,7,7,7,4,3,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 110101 10100011 0010101 101010100 010111 101001111 101101 001101 0101110 11101 11010101 110101 10101010100 11100010 1110111 11101010 011101 010010100 1100101 11011111 1101110 010111 11101010 1011101 101111 10101 0010000101 0101010 110101 0101010 001101 110111010 10101 11000101000 1010101 0010101 101010 1001 1001101 010100 1100010100 1111 0100101 1111 010101 11110100 011111 101111000 1001010 011100 101110 111100 11100101 110100 1101010101 1101110 010101 11010010 10101 101100100 110101 0100010101 1111111 011011 11011011 110001 11001101 110111 0101110101 110100 0100101 101011 111011 10010101 011100 0111010100 101010 0010111 1110010 11100101 100010101 110101 10000010101 0011110 110101 110111 1110111 101010111 110001 101010111 1111110 111101 1101010 110001 11011101 010111 11001110101 110101 11001 011101 010101 111110111 0101000 10101110101 0111110 011111 10101010 1011101 0111101 0111 001110101 1111 010101 11011 110111 11010100 10111 0101110101 0011110 110101 1111010 010011 101010100 110101 11101010001 1111011 110101 1001010 010101 101010100 110100 11101010111 1101010 110101 1101110 111101 10110010 111111 0100011100 1101110 1101001 1101010 10100101 1001010100 111101 1111010100 1101010 1111001 1101111 110100 1101111 1110101 1110011110 1010010 111111 0011110 00111 101000101 111111 1101110101 1101011 110101 10111011 110111 01011100 0100100 1011110101 0101010 1101010 01010010 00101010 101010110 0110010 1111010101 10111000 111101 0101110 111111 010110100 010111 1010101101 0101010 110101 1100010 110111 01110101 110101 1010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 192
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with, down, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word underground at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Underground;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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