This is an analysis of the poem The Modern Manichee that begins with:
He sayeth there is no sin, and all his sin
Swells round him into a world made merciless; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXcdc bcecaafa dgbgdhah difieheh Xabafcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010111101 11100011100 0110010101 00111001000 11110111110 1111111001 0100101001010 111010100101 011101001010 1101011101 011101010110 1001100001 01010011010 01010010101 10110110010 1110010101 010010010010 1101010111 0101001001110 0101011011 0111110011 11111100101 11110100101 0101000101 10110111010 1101110101 11011000001 1111010101 011101011110 1100110101 11100101110 0101110101 110111111010 1101010101 1111010101 1111110001 01001010101 100111001001 11010010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; his, of are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Modern Manichee;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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