This is an analysis of the poem Arch Criminal that begins with:
When muddled mentors take the stage
To gird against our erring,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabcXccX dddbeeeb fdffdgXggX dddXhhhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 0101110 11001101 11011101 0100110 10110101 0101010 01010101 11010101 0100010 10111101 11010101 01110101 0101010 11010101 11011101 11011111 0111010 01110101 1101010 01110101 11010111 0001010 11010101 01010100 11010101 01011111 1100100 110110101 10010111 101111101 1101010 11010011 1111111 10010111 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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 Arch Criminal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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