This is an analysis of the poem The Scrutiny that begins with:
Why should you swear I am forsworn,
Since thine I vowed to be?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababc dedee fXfggXgbgbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 111100 10000101 11111101 11010100 11111111 0100111 11110101 11100101 11110111 11110111 1101010 11110111 110100011 110010011 10111111 110101 01010101 11000101 11000100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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- summary of The Scrutiny;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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