This is an analysis of the poem Isandula that begins with:
Ever the story liveth of the fight on the far hillside,
Fraught with the ancient sorrow that is brother born of pride:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaA ccddeeffaa gXaaff hhiiaa iijjaaaggaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,6,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100101000110111 10010101010101 11110000100111 101111011001001 111011110100101 11100110100101 1101110100111 1111011011001 1011100110101011 1001011101101111 100100100111001 1110111101011 1011011100101 1111011110111 1010011001001 1010100100101011 1110010111101 1100110101110100 10010101010101 1111010111101 10110101010101 010001101110101 1111010111111 11111111111011 1001010110101 1001011100101 00101110010101 1011010111011 1011011101011101 10100111001001 11010011110101 111010101010101 10111100110101 0110111101101001 10111001110111 1101010100101 1101010011111 1010011110100101 11100110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 481
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; of, with, and, to, for, that, they are repeated.
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- summary of Isandula;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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