This is an analysis of the poem The Future Life that begins with:
How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps
The disembodied spirits of the dead,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec bebe dede dfdf ffff ghghXhaha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111100111 0001010001 1101111101 1100010111 1111010101 0111110101 1101111101 0110010101 0111110111 11110101010 1111110011 10010011010 01111101101 00100011001 11010000101 1101011111 0111110101 1100110101 11011100001 1001011011 01001111101 0111111110 0101000101 11011100011 1101010111 1101111101 11110111001 1101010111 1111010001 1111010101 0111011101 100010110101 1111101101 0101111100 0101011101 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, thy, and, same, that, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Future Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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