This is an analysis of the poem The Leper that begins with:
NOTHING is better, I well think,
Than love; the hidden well-water... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cded fgfg cfcf ehch ifif jcjc Xfkf dhdh clcl hhhh dhdh Xmbm dede gege njnj dfdf cheh bhbh hehe cfcf jhjh imem hdhd bdXd hdhd fefc ifif fkfk iaia jkjk bdbd mhXh kckeXeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010111 11010110 01110001 01110110 11000101 110111001 10010101 11110111 11111101 01110111 11011101 011111001 11110100 11111101 11111111 01110101 11110101 11110101 10010101 11110111 10010111 11110011 11010101 10110011 11111100 11111100 11111101 01111001 11010110 11110101 11010101 11011101 11011101 11110011 01010011 00110111 11111111 11111101 11111001 11111100 11110111 11011101 10011101 01011111 11111100 11010101 10010101 0100101101 10111100 10111101 11111110 11011011 110101111 010100100 10110101 11011110 11110101 01011001 10110111 11010111 10011101 11010101 01110101 01110100 11011111 01010111 10110111 10010101 11000101 11010111 11010101 10111111 11111110 11010101 11110100 11110111 01110111 01110111 10101111 01010101 11111011 11111101 11101111 11011101 11101011 10111100 11101111 11110101 11110111 11000101 11000101 10111100 11111101 01011111 01011111 11110101 11101100 011111101 10111111 11110101 11111111 01110111 01111101 111110100 11111101 01110101 01111101 10110101 11000111 110111111 01110101 110111111 11011101 001110101 11011101 11110101 111110101 110100101 11111111 11110101 11110111 10111101 010110111 01110101 11011100 110111101 110111100 10110001 01011111 01110111 11001100 11001011 11011111 11011101 01111101 11111101 11110111 01011101 11010111 011001111
- Amount of stanzas: 35
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 140
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; well, i, her, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, her are 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 Leper;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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