This is an analysis of the poem The Harlot Of The World that begins with:
O Life, thou harlot who beguilest all!
Beautiful in thy house, the golden world....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa bcXb Xcb Xcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011001 1000110101 10011101010 1101010011 10001011101 1011101101 10010111000 1101010101 1101010011 1100010001 1011100101 1101110001 1100010101 1011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Harlot Of The World;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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