This is an analysis of the poem Blood Guilt that begins with:

Night threatens at the bed of our kisses.
Somewhere a whisper: who absolves your guilt?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a a b X a X b X a XXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010110 1101010111 11000010001001 11011100110 1010101011 10111101 01010010101 11011100110 10100101010 10110100111 11111011100 11011100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 43
  • Average number of words per stanza: 8
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Blood Guilt;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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