This is an analysis of the poem The Four Zoas (Excerpt) that begins with:
'What is the price of Experience? do men buy it for a song?
Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme:
- Stanza lengths (in strings):
- Closest metre:
- Сlosest rhyme:
- Сlosest stanza type:
- Guessed form:
- Metre:
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 452
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, to, in, and, that, our, when, with, give, say, he, of, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Four Zoas (Excerpt);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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