This is an analysis of the poem The Oath that begins with:
It was near evening, the room was cold
Half dark; Uncle Ben's brass bullet-mould...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaabcacdXdXefeXfeeaaageghaah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011100111 111011101 1101110101 010100011101 11011010101 1111101001 10111100010 00111011101 11111100110 11110000101 110100101111 010111001000 011010101 11011100100 11101001011 10110100101 1101001010100 1101010001 11111101001 00101010101 11011101 11010101 110111 111010011 0101000111 0101000101 110011100101 1111011001 101101101 11010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1255
- Average number of words per stanza: 238
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Oath;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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