This is an analysis of the poem If I Were A Monk, And If Thou Wert A Nun that begins with:
If I were a monk, and thou wert a nun,
Pacing it wearily, wearily,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaBcc dedeaa afafgg hbhbgg iBiBaa fbfBgg dBdBjj bbjBaa jXjBii jXjBkkXababaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100111101 100100100 110111101 100100 110101101 1101111110 010110101 10111 111010111 11101 010110101 10011111 100100101 01010 101100101 10010 101100101 1011100101 10011101 100100 10101101 100100 110100101 1101001011 010101001 100100 001101101 100100 111100111 100100101 1111110101 100100 10011101 100100 111101111 11100101 11101101 100100 1101101001 100100 011100111 10110111 111101010 1011100 101110101 100100 101011110 100110101 11111011001 100100 0111000101 100100 101101011 111101111 111100101 100100 111101101 100100 11101010001 100110101 11111101 100100 111111111 100100 10101010110 11001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wearily, and, now are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of If I Were A Monk, And If Thou Wert A Nun;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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