This is an analysis of the poem Epigram that begins with:
Because I am idolotrous and have besought
With grievous supplication and consuming prayer,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011110001110 010100010101 010001011111 100111010101 010111110111 111101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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 is repeated.
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- summary of Epigram;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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