This is an analysis of the poem The Sister that begins with:
WHAT is balm for a soul distressed, O! sailor tell to me ?
“A good ship in a fighting wind glad of an angry sea....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbXX aaXX aaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110101110101 00100101101101 01010111010111 10111110110111 10110101110111 011101001010111 01010111011011 10111110110110 10010110110101 01101101010101 11011001110101 1110111011101 11101110111111 11110101010101 11011111110111 01010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Sister;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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