This is an analysis of the poem Ortus that begins with:
How have I laboured?
How have I not laboured...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXbc abXXXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100 1111100 010101 011100011010 1010010111110 1111111 1111000101001010 010011010 10111101 11100010011 111011011 10111011 10111011 11101 11111101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to, and, her, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, to, she, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines laboured is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word being at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Ortus;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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