This is an analysis of the poem Grub First, Then Ethics that begins with:
Should the shade of Plato
Visit us, anxious to know...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcdebfdghiXXXjjbgkbkgXghlmcmcXkdhmekhkXXhlcgckknmggemegibkdkdeegXndcogdaXdfdfeoXmckjkemgilocX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 96,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 1011001 110001110110 11100111 010101111010 1011010 11011101110 11110101 11011111110 110101 1011110101110 01010110 111001100111 1010101100 11110111010 0011110 11010100 10100100 100001000 1010110 11001000101111 100111011 101011111111 1101011 10010100011010 01100101 11110000111 1010111 010101101011 11010011 110100111 110101 0101010 1101110 110010011 11010100 10111010101 1111010 011010100101 0100010 111001101010 101100010 11101100101 11000110 11010100101 11001001 110010100 010110 11100 1010101 101001001 01001001 11011110010 1010110 01110101010 1010001 10001111110 1110100 01110100111 01011111 111101101011 1101011 101001101 100101 010100 0101010 101010100 1101011 10101011001001 1111111 11101100101 0100111 1101001101 101110000 100111010100 10011001 101101011101 0010100001 111001010 1011001 0100110 1101111 0100101001 1010010 010111011001 1110100 01101110110 10101001 011010000110 1101101 011011111011 01011111 101111011101 0001011 11011111 010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3461
- Average number of words per stanza: 640
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, your, it, as, or are repeated.
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- summary of Grub First, Then Ethics;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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