This is an analysis of the poem Aholibah that begins with:
IN the beginning God made thee
A woman well to look upon,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb cXcbX cdcdd aeaee fcfcc gdgdd XaXXa ehehh icicc cecee cbcbb jcjcc dedee eEXXe kekee lelee mmmmm hahaa fbfbb mbmbb Xaaaa ieiee ecXcd gdgdd Xlall aEXeX bgbeg mcmcc ccccc aaaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 00010111 01010101 11010101 10111111 10110011 11111001 01101100 01100101 01110111 11111100 11011101 01011111 11011101 11111111 10110101 11000101 01111111 01010111 110010101 11011101 11010011 11110101 11011101 11100111 11011111 11111101 11111101 11010101 01011101 01111100 11111000 010101001 0101110 11011100 01110001 11110100 11111111 01000100 11010001 11001111 11001101 01010101 10010011 11110111 11110101 11111111 10110101 01110101 11111111 01010101 01010101 11110111 11111111 11111101 01110100 01110101 1101110 01110001 10110011 11010101 11111101 01011101 01011001 1101111 10111111 10010000 01011011 01010100 11011100 11010101 11010101 11110101 01101111 11010101 11110111 10010110 11010100 10110100 10110100 11110101 01011101 11001111 110010100 10110101 100101000 11011101 11010101 01011111 11110001 11011110 11011011 11011111 11000101 11110101 11110001 111100101 01010111 10110111 11110111 11011101 11111000 10110101 11111101 11110110 11010101 10111101 01001101 11010011 11010101 11111101 11011101 01110111 11010101 110100101 0111010 01111101 00110111 01111101 01110101 10110101 101111000 110101010 11111101 111111010 110101010 11010101 01011011 10011000 11110111 11011000 10011101 01010011 11110101 11110101 11110101 01010111 01010101 11101111 00010001 01010101 10010111 11001101 11010111 010010101 11010001 11010110 11010101 11010101 11010101 00011000
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 150
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and, thy, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same words and, god, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Aholibah;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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