This is an analysis of the poem Hell that begins with:
The friends who stood about my bed
Looked down upon my face and said:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaX bbb ccX ddd eee aXX aaa cXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110111 11011111 10010101 10110111 11011111 11000100 11010011 11100111 110011101 01110111 11011101 01010101 01110101 01010001 11110101 01010101 010111010 110101100 11001111 11011101 00110101 11110101 11111101 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; my, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of Hell;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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