This is an analysis of the poem Compensations that begins with:
I: BLIND
When first the shadows fell, like prison bars,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcdefeghghaa i biibbiibbjbfj k GgcccceeccdDllkkaa XGgffdD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,13,1,18,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11 1101111101 1101011101 1111010101 1101110101 1100110001 1111010101 0101111111 1111010101 1100110101 1101010111 1111010101 1111010101 1101110101 0101110111 11 1101011111 1101010101 1101011101 0100011111 1101110101 0101110111 0111010111 01010001001 110011011 0111010101 1111111101 1001010101 1101110101 110 011101 0101100101 0101111101 110101 100111 0111000101 111101 110111 1101011110 110011010101 1101011101 110101 111111 1111010111 111010 0101010111 010111 111101 011101 010111 1101110101 100101 1101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word across at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Compensations;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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