This is an analysis of the poem The Sword Of Pain that begins with:
The Lights burn dim and make weird shadow-play,
The white walls of the ward are changed to grey,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdcdbbeeafgf aahhXdcd iiccjkjk llddkckc kkllmmhihi aaXndjdj cckkllll kkaaonon ccddkcXc nnddlklk iipplklk llnXikik aaXlcdcd llaglclc kkddabab kkddfnfn agllalglXffddnbnb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,10,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111111111 0110011101 10110010101 110011100101 1111111111 1011010101 1101010101 1101010001 1101110101 11111101001 1101010101 1101000101 0111011101 1001000101 1011011100 1011010101 10010100101 1101110111 10010100101 0111111011 110101001000 0101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1011011101 0111110101 010110110010 1001010101 11001011101 0111010101 0101000111 1001010111 1101110111 1111011111 0101010001 1101011101 1011010101 0100110101 1100011111 100110111010 1001010101 11010010001 1101011111 1111010101 010011101001 1111010101 1011001101 1111010101 0101010101 10111011101 0111000101 0111011111 10110011001 0101110111 1101000101 1111010111 1010001111 1101010101 1101011100 0101010101 1111111101 1111001011 01101111111 11010111001 1011001101 1101011111 0111110001 0101010101 1101010100 1111010101 0111010101 11110010101 1111010101 0101001101 01010100101 1111111101 0111010101 1101100101 0101110100 1101110101 1111010101 1011110101 1101110101 1111010101 0101000101 1101111101 1101110101 1101110111 1001100101 10010101001 10011100101 01001110101 1011010101 1111011001 11100010101 11111101101 0111000110 0101010101 10101100101 1101100101 11010101010 10011010111 1111010101 1111011101 0111000111 0001011001 1110010101 11010111000 1011100101 1101011101 10110101001 01011111001 0101000101 10011011101 1001010001 0101110101 1101000100 1101110101 1101011101 01001011101 1011010111 1101010101 10110100001 0111010111 0101011111 111111010001 11010010101 1001110111 1111010011 0101010001 1001010001 10110101111 1111011101 0100010101 0101010101 1111010011 01001110001 11010101101 1011000100 1101110101 1101110011 110101111110 1101111101 1100011100 1111111101 1111111101 1110010101 01001010011 1100010101 0111010101 0111110101 0111010011 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 154
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, my, its, it, sword, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Sword Of Pain;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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