This is an analysis of the poem They Shall Not Know that begins with:

When thou art happy, thou dear heart of pleasure,
Because men love thee and the feasts are spread,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcddc ebebceec fgfgchhc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111010 0111110111 11001111010 10101110111 1101111101 1011 0101 1111 11110011010 0111111101 11111101010 11001110101 1101111111 1001 1101 1111 11010111010 11110010001 11010101010 1101010101 1111111101 1111 1111 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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, to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word know at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of They Shall Not Know;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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