This is an analysis of the poem The Black Shawl that begins with:
As of senses bereft, at a black shawl I stare,
And my chill heart is tortured with deadly despair. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AA bb aa Xa XX cc dd ee ff ff ff cc gg cc ddXAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001101111 111101001001 11011001001 11011001011 11111011011 111101001001 1110111010110 010100101111 11101100010011 11101111101 11111101011 1110101101 111011011101 101101011011 01101011011 111111111111 11001001101 1010011001111 11101111101 010011001101 101101011011 11011001011 101001001111 11011111011 11011001111 101101011001 101001011011 1110010011001 11101001101 11110101011 101001101111 111101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, then are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word since is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Black Shawl;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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