This is an analysis of the poem The Sisters Of Charity that begins with:

That bright-eyed and brown-skinned youth,
The fine twenty-year body that should go naked,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc XXdd efef cgXd ebeb dheh bbXb didi fgfXXafhf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 011011011110 11100101001 10110101110 0100100100 1110011000 1100101010 111101011 011001100 100011010 11001010100 010110100100 111010101001 1110010010010 111011111 100111010 11010101010 110001010010 1001011111 1111101110 11011101100 111000010101 111111111 10100011111 11011110101 10111111010 011110101 001010110010 11001011011 01011010010100 010010100101 110111010100 1101010100100 1010001110 110010010111010 11100101101 1101010101 101110110 1001111111 1010011100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; that, of, your are repeated.

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  • summary of The Sisters Of Charity;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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