This is an analysis of the poem The Return Of The Proconsul that begins with:
I’ve decided to return to the emperor’s court
once more I shall see if it’s possible to live there...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbXX Xcdeb febfe eedbe XcXcaeebXX XAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,10,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001001001 1111100100011 1111000110 10011101000 1001010100 1101110100111 110101010 10101010 11101110101 0101001 10100010111011 1101011010101 11111010100101010101 01110010101 1110101101101011101 1110101101 011011011011 011110101010 1011000101011 1101010110 0111111011101 11101010101011 10111010100111 0101001100010 0010010010100001 10101011101 1010101111010 1101010101 011011000110101 11101010110100 10100101011011001 1010001001001 11011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; i, to, with, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words under, i, with are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Return Of The Proconsul;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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