This is an analysis of the poem The Despot that begins with:

1 The garden mould was damp and chill,
2 Winter had had his brutal will... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff eegg ffee hhiiXddgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011111 110110100 111010110 101010101 111110111 110010101 111010101 111110101 1110010111 101010111 11101010011 110011100 111010101 111110111 111010101 101010101 1010011101 1010111101 111010001 111010100 1110101011 111110101 111111101 111001101 111010111 101111101 101010101 111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, that are repeated.

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  • summary of The Despot;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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