This is an analysis of the poem The Three Enemies that begins with:
THE FLESH
"Sweet, thou art pale."... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaaX XbbX XccX XbbX b XddX XeeX XbbX XXXX X XffX XggX XccX XbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 1011100 10101 11010101 110101110 101110 10001 11011111 0100001010 1011100 1011 11010101 110101000 10111000 1011 01111011 011111100 01 101110 10111 11110101 010101010 101110 1111 11111101 0101011000 1011100 1001 11001101 111101010 101010 10111 01110101 01100010 010 101010 10111 11010111 111101010 1011100 1001 11010111 111111000 10111000 1001 01111111 101111110 1010 1010111 11011101 111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
The author used the same words sweet, and, thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines young, fair are repeated).
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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