This is an analysis of the poem The Baptistry that begins with:
One winter eve, at twilight, when the sound
Of sorrowful winds scarce troubled Nature's rest,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb adaX eaea bfXf bcbc fdfd babagbgb hihi fcfc gjgj afaf egeg iaXa kaka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111101 01001110101 1111000101 10011001001 1101011101 10010010111 01111100101 1101010101 11010110101 0111011101 0101110111 0011000100 1001110111 01001010111 1101010101 1111010101 1111110101 0101110101 1001011101 01001000101 1111011101 10011010101 10110101101 0101110011 1101001101 1011001111 0111010101 1011101111 1111110001 1101010101 1111010101 11010110001 1000110101 0111010111 0101110111 0101010101 1101011101 0101011111 11110011101 1001111111 1101011101 0101010111 010110111 1111110101 1101010111 1001001100 1001011101 10101110001 11010111011 1101111101 1101111100 1101100101 0111111101 01001010101 1111111101 11010010101 1011010101 0101011101 0101110100 1111011101 1011110111 0111010101 11110101001 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, in, my, of, to, i, light are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
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- summary of The Baptistry;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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