This is an analysis of the poem The Requital that begins with:
LOUD roared the tempest,
Fast fell the sleet; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaXa cadaea ecdcfc ddddXd ghghgh cigiXi ajXjdj ccdcbc kaXakaXgfhfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 1101 010110 1101 01010 1101 01110 1101 111110 01011 101010 1101 1101 11101 110110 1101 1011 00101 111010 11110 111110 01110 11011 11010 010110 0101 101110 1111 111010 0001 01011 10111 010110 0111 111010 1101 110010 1101 10101 10101 11110 1111 01010 1111 001010 0111 10110 1100 10010 1001 01010 1101 01010 0101 101010 1111 10111 0101 101010 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words she, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Requital;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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