This is an analysis of the poem The Ravens that begins with:
The Ravens
Over the black crevice...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a baXc bcaX XXXb X d dXXX XXXd XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 100110 1101010101 1111011 11111011 111010110 001100101 101010010010 111111010 010111111 1101111011 1100110100 100110001 010110101010 1110 11101010 110110111101 1101111010 11011111110 111111111 0111011 11111101 11011111101 111111110010 11101111111 11011100 01111010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, und are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ckt is repeated).
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- summary of The Ravens;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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