This is an analysis of the poem The Temperaments that begins with:
Nine adulteries, 12 liaisons, 64 fornications and
something approaching a rape...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbbXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001011110001 1001001 1100101011001 100 110101101010100 11101110110 10001010011111 01011000 10101001 1101001111 11001110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Temperaments;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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