This is an analysis of the poem The Deodand that begins with:
What are these women up to? They’ve gone and strung
Drapes over the windows, cutting out light ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdefdgXXhaeieidjkXkXeXldiibebbgXXcejiXXiXddXcblXddkbXfXihXicb ffXbiXiicXeiiXXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101111 1100101011 1010100110110 10010001101 1110101010101 111110100001 0101010101 110111101010 10110100101 001110110000 11110101 1100011111 10010110010 10010100011 1010000101 1001011100 111101110010 1101011101 010101010010 011001101000 1101010110 1101000100 0010011101000 001010010101 010101101000 01010011001 1101010101 01010101101 0010010100001 0011101010100 1101010101 0010110101110 011001011001 10110010011 0111011001 11111101100 11001001101 0100010111 1011110110 01110111010 0101011101 10110101001 01011000010 10100011000 10101101001 100010101010 0111000100 10000101010 10001010011 1111010101 00111101110 10110100110 0100010101 1101011100 11110100010 11010100010 0101010101 1010101 0100010101 10100111111 0101011100 0100101100 10100010001 110001010010 001010001001 11001011101 1101110011 100010101011 0101001110 10111010101 1111010011 110100111010 11111100101 0100010101 110110100101 10010011011 10110011 111111111011 1111101110 11111010010 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1775
- Average number of words per stanza: 301
- Amount of lines: 82
- 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; in, and, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and, car are repeated.
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- summary of The Deodand;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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