This is an analysis of the poem The Envoy Of Mr Cogito that begins with:
Go where those others went to the dark boundary
for the golden fleece of nothingness your last prize ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab bc Xa Xc de fega he ihd XXdgf fX beai iX bibXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,4,2,3,5,2,4,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101001100 101010100111 10101111111 01101111110001 101101001 111011111010 001010110010010 0010011000010 11110100101 010110100010110 11101111 100101010010101 10101100001010101 01000111100100 11101100010110 001001010111 011100010101 11011110010 0111110110111 0101001101001 01010110101 1101010001 111111 11101110101 010010110101010111 11111001111 01110000010010110 0100110010010101 0111010100 1110010110001 110011011111 00101001010101 1011000110001000100011 00100011101001010 0010001001101010010 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; those, you, your, of, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, they are repeated.
The author used the same words go, beware at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Envoy Of Mr Cogito;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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