This is an analysis of the poem To Joanna that begins with:
Amid the smoke of cities did you pass
The time of early youth; and there you learned, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeafbghifadjfdXkldbbffgfdjbdcXhbXembajblbkfaadaXbmiXnobilpfabbdobdfefbdnfienpfibX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 85,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010011 0101011111 0001010001 01010111101 0101010111 0101010000 1101010100 1111000111 1111100001 1001010100 0101111111 0101111110 1100111110 1101010010 11010001101 1101110101 1000011011 1111011111 0111011100 11010011010 0100010111 1101111111 10101011101 11010101011 1101010101 1011010111 0101010100 1101010100 01000111001 1111010101 0101010101 1111010001 0100110111 11110011000 10110110001 1101011101 1101010111 1101010101 110110011001 0101010101 1111110101 1111010111 1101111111 10010100011 0101010111 01011101110 1100000101 0111010111 0101010101 01110100001 1111011101 0101001110 1100011101 0111010001 1101011101 1101010111 1100010101 1011010111 0101010101 1111000101 1001000111 1001011101 0101011001 0100010101 1101000101 1101101101 1001100100 1011000101 0101010101 0101011111 0111010010 0101010111 1110111001 11110100011 0101011011 0100110001 1111001011 01011100101 0101111101 1101011111 01000010111 11001011100 101100101 11111111101 1101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3652
- Average number of words per stanza: 639
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, with, you, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of To Joanna;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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