This is an analysis of the poem The Labyrinth that begins with:
Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and we
Are daily lost in that Obliquity. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbbbbaXbbccbbccccddeecXccddffXXccddXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010111 1101011000 100110011 1011011101 1001010010 1001010011 11011111100 1111011101 11000010101 1001010100 1001011101 0011010111 1001010101 1111011111 1011110111 1101011101 1101111101 1111110101 11011010101 1001110101 1110111101 100100010 1111111101 1101011100 11001110101 1111011100 0100111110 10010011101 1111011101 1111110101 1111110111 1101100101 111010111 1101010010 1111001101 1101000101 1101010101 1101110100 1111111101 1101110101 11101111111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1808
- Average number of words per stanza: 322
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; our, to, and, we are repeated.
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- summary of The Labyrinth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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