This is an analysis of the poem The New Vestments that begins with:
There lived an old man in the kingdom of Tess,
Who invented a purely original dress;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaadaaeeee ddffggbbddaaffddccbbaahh iiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,24,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11111001001 101001001001 11011001101 11001110001 11001101011 001001101001 01111011011 01011111011 0100101100111 01011001011 01001001101 011111011010 1010010010010 1111011010110 010110111010 111011111011 01101001011 1010011111001 11011001011 11101101011 11101011011 11111001001 1010010111011 1100100100110 110110010110 111010110001 111001001101 11011001101 11011101101 11101011011 11101001101 110010001001 11011111011 11101011101 11111101101 1100110101 11001101011 11001001001 10111011111 111001111001 101101001101 1011011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 529
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, his, he, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, and, they are repeated.
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- summary of The New Vestments;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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