This is an analysis of the poem Insensibility that begins with:
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbXcdddeecd X eddefeg X ggffbbhhgibb X gfbbcXfbc a XifdXXbiid a ddgXggdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,1,7,1,12,1,9,1,10,1,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10111101111 111111 110101 1111 11010100110 01110 111111110 111010 11110 101111 1011110 1 11110 10011101 1011 0111010 11011010 1100101000110 11111101010 1 10111101010 110101001010 110111 1111011111 101111 1111 001001001110 110101010 110111 1100110100010 11110 1101010101 1 10010101010 11110011101 110111 1001111101 0111010111 110101 1111010101 01010101 01010101 1 11100110 110111 111111 11011101 0110110100 10110100 1111 110011 1101 11100000 1 1111011101 111011 101111 010011010100 11110101 0101110101 0101110101 1101110111 1101 00101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; of, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, nor, whatever are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines overmuch is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Insensibility;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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