This is an analysis of the poem The Bride that begins with:
Little lady at the altar,
Vowing by God's book and psalter...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabbccdd eeaaffgg bbhhiibb aajjeecc Aajjaakk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 10111110 0010111 1011111 11101010 11101010 1110101 1010110 10101010 01101110 10111110 01101010 11101010 10101110 1110111 1010101 10101111 10101011 00101010 11111010 10111010 10101010 1110101 1011111 10101010 100110010 100101010 100101010 10100110 11101010 1111101 1011101 10101010 10111010 10101010 10111010 01101010 10101010 11101001 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, you, every, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words every, never are repeated.
The author used the same word little at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, them are repeated).
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- summary of The Bride;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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