This is an analysis of the poem With Antecedents that begins with:
WITH antecedents;
With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdebfghiXaibbbjc kaXjeeXaabfki id XeiXdXbj iic ichXgXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,13,2,8,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01100 011011010010100110 0111010111101111 010100100111 001010100011010 0011011001100011 10 0010010100110100 0010100101001010 010101 0111001111001100 001010111011 001001011 001111100111101 1 010010011010111 0 1110101000111001 0110010110001 1100100001001 111111011100 11010100011011100 01011 1101110001101101101 0 11011101110111 01011011010010011 01100111011 11111010110110101 1100100111110101 10101001001110000011011 1 11010101 101010111011111010 1010100101001010 101110111101 11101011010001101 0101 1011111011110 1111111010110 1101010101101000 110110100111010111 00101110111101 1001011101111001 1 11101111010001 1111110001000011 101011101101010011 110111 111111110011100 100111101 110010010111101010 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 487
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and, it, we, i, all, that, they, in, name, sake are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, we, i, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, part are repeated).
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- summary of With Antecedents;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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