This is an analysis of the poem The Voice Of The Man Impatient With Visions And Utopias that begins with:

We find your soft Utopias as white
As new-cut bread, and dull as life in cells,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXdcdaeXecXaXcfbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010011 1111111101 1111011111 1101011001 1110010111 0101011111 11101010101 1011110101 1011110101 1111110111 1101101010 1101110101 1011010101 1101011101 1101010001 1001110101 1001010101 1111110101 1111010101 11001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 849
  • Average number of words per stanza: 160
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; as is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word let is repeated.

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  • summary of The Voice Of The Man Impatient With Visions And Utopias;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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