This is an analysis of the poem The Questioner that begins with:
I asked of heaven and earth and sea,
Saying: 'O wondrous trinity,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXaaaBbaXXabXBaaXaabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101111 10110100 10110101 11110111 11110100 01010111 01111111 011101101 11110100 01010100 11010101 11010111 11110100 01010111 11110100 1101111 11110100 10110101 11110101 11011101 11011111 10010001 11110100 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 757
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Questioner;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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