This is an analysis of the poem Sin that begins with:
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round!
Parents first season us; then schoolmasters... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcbcbXbbbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011111011 1011011100 01010100111 0101010100 1011110101 01010100110 1111000110 10110100010 10011101000 0101010011 0111011100 1011010111 1111011101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 593
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; us, our are repeated.
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- summary of Sin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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