This is an analysis of the poem A Hall that begins with:

The road led straight to the temple.
Notre Dame, though not Gothic at all....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXbcdeXbdXecb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110010 101111011 01101111101 1001100011 010110100101 1110101 1010011011 11101010100 011100010 100111001000010110 00101111010 010101011 11111111110 1110110101 10110101 10011100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 695
  • Average number of words per stanza: 128
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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  • summary of A Hall;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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