This is an analysis of the poem The Reprieve that begins with:
A MOMENT since, he stood unmoved--alone;
Courage and thought on his resolvēd brow; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efef ghghididgagacjcjkbkbdada gegeghghblbXhdhdcmcmlili agagbaba cecedcdcmhmhgmXm nanahXhXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,24,24,8,16,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 10111010001 11010000101 1101010111 0111110101 0101010101 1111110101 1111001111 1111100111 1101010101 10010100001 0101010101 11110101001 1011010010 1101110101 1111010111 1101011111 1101010101 111101110001 01001111101 110111001001 11011100101 1101010101 1111010101 1111111101 111111110010 0110010101 10111100110 00110111001 1011010011 11010100101 1001011111 1101001101 010111010010 1111010101 11110101110 1011010101 1111011101 1111000101 1111011111 1101011101 1101010111 1111110101 1101100101 1001010111 11111101101 1101110101 11110100010 1101010101 1101010111 11110011001 1111000101 1111011101 1011110101 1001110101 1111011101 1111111111 110110111 1101111101 0100110111 1011011111 11111110101 01110010101 1110110111 0110111111 1011001101 1001110111 0111010001 110010101001 1101110101 1101000101 1101010111 1101001101 1001011101 1101110111 1101011101 1111010101 1101011001 0111011111 11110011101 1111010101 1011011101 01011101100 11110100101 1111011101 1011110111 00111011001 01001010101 1101111101 11110101110 1101010111 1011 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 609
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 93
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, no, some, thy, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, where, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of The Reprieve;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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