This is an analysis of the poem Barbara that begins with:
ON the Sabbath-day,
Through the churchyard old and gray, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbbc XdcXeeec fffgggc dddeeec hhhbbbc iiiggfc XXgdddc eeeaaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 1011111 10011101111101 101010101011111 101010100010101 10101011011101 1110100 111100 1010101 1010101101000 10 111001100011101 1010101000100111 111000101111101 1010100 110101 110101 11111100100101 111010110111111 01000111111101 01010100110111 1110100 110101 1011111 111101011101001 1101100101111101 111100110101001 01010110110111 1010100 110111 1010101 11011101110111 11110101010101 11000101111101 010111010101001 1011100 10011 1111111 11011101101101 101110101010011 11110111111101 110100111010100 1111100 111110 110110 11010101010101 111111110011101 01001101111111 101010111110111 1111100 110101 1010101 11010101010101 01010101111001 11011101011101 10110101100111 100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- 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; and, with, face, of, love, i, vain, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'mid, gleam'd, o are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word barbara at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Barbara;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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