This is an analysis of the poem The Soul's Complaint Against The Body. (From The Anglo-Saxon) that begins with:
Much it behoveth
Each one of mortals, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdeXfb eeXXXXX ghXfbiaXfff ihbXidedgXbcbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,11,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100 11010 110110 00110 11010 1110 01110 110010 011010 10011 10110 0101 01101 10011 1000110 0101 0111 10011 10010 0101 010 10110 11010 011110 00101 00101 01001 11111 01100 11010 01001 111101 110111011 001001 111001 1001 10111 11110 10010 10010 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Soul's Complaint Against The Body. (From The Anglo-Saxon);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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