This is an analysis of the poem Be Quiet! that begins with:
Soul, dost thou fear
For to-day or to-morrow?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbbbXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1011010 101001 011010 01110 111010 111110 111110 11101 010010 11111 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; to, them are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
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- summary of Be Quiet!;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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