This is an analysis of the poem The Ransom that begins with:
Man, with which to pay his ransom,
has two fields of deep rich earth,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabcXXXXXbXcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1110111 11111101 00101010 0010101 01001101 1110011 01010011 10110010 01001000 10101010 10111001 10111001 1010101 0110111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 530
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Ransom;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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