This is an analysis of the poem His Soul that begins with:
ONCE from the world of living men
I passed, by a strange fancy led,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacbbc caac dbXd ee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 11101101 00110001 01010100 11010001 11010011 11011101 11110111 11110111 01110101 01111101 10111101 01110101 010100101 11111100 11010101 11011001 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, his, i are repeated.
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- summary of His Soul;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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