This is an analysis of the poem The Black Bordered Letter that begins with:

An’ SO ’e’s dead in London,
An’ answered to the call,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXeFFAGA heceXcXc FFaGA acbcahdh FFAGA XgdghbXbXFFaGA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,8,5,8,5,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 110001 1101011 011111 11101110 1111110 00111011 1010111 111 111 111110 1101011 11101 1111010 110101 11110100 110101 11101010 1110101 0110110 1111111 111 111 111101 1101011 11101 11011101 110101 110111001 1111101 1111110 1010101 11000101 011101 111 111 111110 1101011 11101 1101010 110101 1111110 110111 11100011 101101 11101110 110101 111 111 111101 1101011 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an, we, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines warm is repeated).

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  • summary of The Black Bordered Letter;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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