This is an analysis of the poem Characters that begins with:
OH! born to sooth distress, and lighten care;
Lively as soft, and innocent as fair;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbd deeccff ccg ghhiiiXccbXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,3,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011101 1011110011 1011010001 1101110001 0101010101 01001000111 1111000101 01010100101 1110111111 1101011101 1101001101 0100110111 1101010001 1101110101 1101010101 1111010001 0101010101 0101000101 1111110111 1001110101 1101000111 0101110001 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1011010110 1101011101 0101000101 1101010001 01001111110 1111110101 01000100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of, so, be, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
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- summary of Characters;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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