This is an analysis of the poem Widows that begins with:
The world was widowed by the death of Christ:
Vainly its suffering soul for peace has sought... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaaaBB cdcdeeffffbbbgghfhhiiccjjffccXkjkfffaafiigg ggcaacgagaXXXXlldhd hXAaBBll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,43,19,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010101 10010011111 1101 1101010101 0111000101 0111010101 00110001110 0101001101 001100100010 1101010111 1111000101 110101 0100010101 0111000101 0111000101 1111001101 1001001101 011101 010111 1101110101 0101010001 1101010101 0111010 111 110001 11110101010 11110 1111110111 1111110011 0001010101 1101011011 0111011101 1101110111 1111011101 100101 1101010101 1100011011 1101010101 0101010101 1001000011 1101001 1111011111 1101 0111 1111010100 110111010010 11001100010 10110100001 01001010111 1111010111 1101011101 1011110011 0001010111 0111111101 1111111101 1001010101 1101 11010101001 1011000101 11001111011 101101 110100100 0101011101 1100110101 1101011011 1011011111 011001 1101011101 1011010101 0111010101 1101010101 0111000101 0111010101 1011010100 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 588
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; nothing, to, has, in, of, widows are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, hasten are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines face is repeated).
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- summary of Widows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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