This is an analysis of the poem A Requiem that begins with:
Ay, pale and silent maiden,
Cold as thou liest there,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdded fdXddgXg hiciahch ejXjckak ejhjejXjXeahafhch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 11111 1101010 110101 0101110 111101 1101010 010101 00001011 111101 00010010 1001101 1111010 110101 1111110 110101 111110 110111 1111010 111100 1111110 111111 1111110 111101 1101110 110101 1101110 101100 1101010 111001 1110010 111101 1111110 010101 1111010 011101 0111110 110001 1101110 111111 1111110 110101 0101010 011001 1001011 010101 1011010 001011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; and, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Requiem;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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