This is an analysis of the poem The Shadow that begins with:
Paul Jannes was working very late,
For this watch must be done by eight... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccbbaacXdd eeffgghhcXaaaabbffbXiijkjbbgggghhggggaall bb ffccllhhggaafcmmff bbmmeeeeeggaamm hhaXabbffggeeddggiieecfbbhX hhggccgggggghhhaaabb aadneebbhhchhgffdXeeoojXppcXaadX bb ddppiieegXggXXhhllaaggggllehe aaaacchhbbXahhaa dXggooffkkccddaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,41,2,18,15,27,20,32,2,29,16,36,2,31,33,2,8,2,27,3,2,12,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101 10110111 01010100 11000101 01000110 101010101 010001011 1110100101 010010111 111101111 0101001010 01001111010 1110101010010 011101110 0110010101 11110111 111010101 001010101 1011011111 100100101 0101011010 100101110 10010100 10010111 10010010001 100101110 01011101 010011101 010110101 111010111 01010011 11011101 11011101 10111101 01011001 11010110 00100101101 11010101 0111101010 00101 010010 11111101 110100101 1001101 01011101 10010111 110101111 11011101 010110111 101001101010 10101010 10010111 110010111 0101101100 10010101 11010001 11010101 11011101 11110111 11001100 10010111 01001101 11011101 11010001 1011101001 000110011 10011111 101111111 0010010011 01100111 11110101 100100101 10111001001 10000111 100100101 0101100101 0100100101 11010001 1000111101 11010101 11010111 010010001 110010101 1101001001 111101111 0010101 110101111 010011111 111010111 01010111 010101101 11011101 0111001001 11111010 01110101 0110100100 10110001001 01111111111 001000101 1111110101 101110101 11001001101 10111101 010100111 110010101 00100100101 10111101101 11110101 010100111 001111101 11010111 00110011 1101011101 101001001 011111001 1110111 01111111 110010011 11111101 01110101 101110101 011100101 01010101 011101111 011101011 010111010 110111010 111100101 11010101 01010101 010011101 01010001 10110101 111010101 10101011 11011100 110101000 11101101001 110010101 110100111 10011001 1110100 01010100 00100110011 110100101 001010101 001101110 11010111 0010110111 0111001101 0010110101 10100101 01010101 010100001 11010111 010111100 100101100 101010101 1010101 1110111 01011111 10011100 10100111 00111010 11101110 0110111 111011010 01011111 0110011 1101110 10010000 01110111 1011100101 11001101 111011001 0111011010 101011010 110101011 111110101 010100101 100100101 1001001010 0101111010 011010101 010010111 0101101100 010101101 1100110001 1110110111 01101011001 1101100111 001011101 11010111 011001110 00101010 1110101 010011101 11010101 11010101 01110101 1001 01111 11110101 11011111 010100111 001100011 110001001 11011101 110111110 10100010 01100101 011100101 10111000 11011101 10010111 1110101101 0010101111 010101001 101011101 011111000 10110101 01010101 010101011 0010010111 001011111 01100101 110101111 11010101 111010101 010101111 010111101 11011111 1111011101 11111001 01011101 0010100111 1111101101 011110001 11111101 111010100 0100010001010 010101010 110111101 111110011 1100101101 1010101 101100111 10010101 10111110101 01001001 10010101 11010110 110110111 11111101 010011101 010011101 111110101 110100101 1010111010 010111110 110110101 100111111 1010011101 11100111011 0101001001 1010100101 010111111 001011100 110111010 111100010 1010010101 01010101 11100101101 100110111 10110101100 111011001 111100001 0110101111 100100101 111110001 111011001 010010101 101001001 1100100101 1110101110 110111100 10110101 110110111 1100101001 10110101011 0011100111 010101111 0100110101 0011111001 110011111 0101001001 111010100 10001111 1111011101 11110101 01011101 1100100101 010011101 111111001 111110101 1011010101 11100111001 111011100 01111101 1010111 110010101 10111101 11111011 1111001001 110101101 0101101101 01110100 11111111 0111100101 00101011010 0100100101 01010101 11110011 10010111 00110011 011110111 01110111 1111101101 1101101001 00110100 011110111 100110011 110110101 01010111 001011101 11101111 11101110010 00101011010 0010110101 110101101 110010100 10011111 010110101 110101001 10110111 11010100 10010100 010000101 00100110101 1010011111 1011110100 010100101 111101101 001011101 110100101 11000101 101110101 1111011101 11011101 0111100101 0011110101 1101101001 111100111 11010111 11011101 00101101001 11011101 001010101 11110101 11111101 1111100001 1100110101 1010101 11011001 0111101101 001111101 1101010111 1110101001 111100111 01011111 1111101001 110100101 1011111011 010100101 11111100101 11101111101 0100101001 1010011100 0101111101 110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 403
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; his, of, and, he, your, her, would, from, to, i, we, you, as, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he, his, and, i, a, to, as, of are repeated.
The author used the same words paul, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Shadow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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