This is an analysis of the poem The Champion that begins with:

Young and a conqueror, once on a day,
Wild white Winter rode out this way;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eedX ffgg dddd hhhh ffaX hXgg ffhh ffcX ggdd ddgg aXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001101 11101101 00101101001 100101101 10111111 110111111 110101101 101100101 101000101 10100111 11111100 110101101 10100101 010110101 10100101 100010011 10100111 10100101 110110111 0110101101 100100101 101110101 10100100111 1001001001 10110111 10010101 110101101 010100100 10100101 10101110 11110111 011101100 100101111 100101101 10101111 011101101 100100111 10010101 10010111 11011101 10101110101 101110111 1110111111 111010101 101110101 01011101 1100100101 110101101 10100111 111111111 111110101 1110101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word see is repeated.

    The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Champion;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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