This is an analysis of the poem The Sin [gonah] that begins with:
I sinned a sin full of pleasure,
In an embrace which was warm and fiery....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcd Dcec Dfge XdgX cXbe AXfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011010 01011111100 1101011 1011010110 011110010 110001011 1101001011 001000100101 011110010 111000101 01110111 10100100111 1100010101 1111101 111111001 1110011 010101001 0111001 0011110 100100101 11011010 100101001 1111110 011110010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, in, i, of, o, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, i are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Sin [gonah];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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