This is an analysis of the poem The Tempters that begins with:
EVERY gentle breeze that's blowing is a tempter very knowing,
For it penetrates my armor in its weakest, thinnest spot; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbacac XaXaadXd deaeXcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111000101010 101011100010101 1111101011101010 101001001111001 10010001010111110 001000111110001 10111010111001110 001000101110001 10011111000111010 101001101010101 011101000110010 111110100010101 10101110001011110 111011101110001 1111111010101010 1111010100010001 100111011100111011 101101101011011 1111101001111010 011010111010111 1111101011101110 111101100011101 1010101011101110 101110101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 507
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, i, to, and, me, they, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word well is repeated.
The author used the same word every at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Tempters;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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