This is an analysis of the poem A Question that begins with:
AND so in the death-darkened chamber they met,
The woman that once he had loved and the one he loved yet— ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabbbccc aaadddXeefffggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101011 01011111101111 011110010101011101 11101101011 101111001001011 101001101001001111 0110010010010 0011010010111010 1010110011011101010 111101011101 11001001111101 11011111001101011 11111011011 101101101111001 01011101011001011 101001001101 111101001111101 101011101001111011 11111001101100 101111111011110 101011101111001111 101111101001 11101011001001 101001101011001010 10001011001 01001001001111 11001011101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 853
- Average number of words per stanza: 164
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, his, to, had, across, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Question;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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