This is an analysis of the poem The Thraldom that begins with:
I came, I saw, and was undone;
Lightning did through my bones and marrow run;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddaaee ffXggg hhhhff iibbaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 1001111101 01011111 011100111001 11111101 01011101 10010101 1001100101 11010101 0011110100 10111111 10111101 11001111 11101111101 101100111 1001110101 110100101 01010101 11111111 1100111101 11111101 0101111101 11111111 11010101 11010101 1101010101 100111001 11111000101 01011101 010100101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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- summary of The Thraldom;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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