This is an analysis of the poem A Story Of Doom: Book Iv. that begins with:

Now while these evil ones took counsel strange,
The son of Lamech journeyed home; and, lo!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcddeddf ghggidjXdacdgekhgcXX baddlfhgcliX gecccmgde dghXXhc ehddgkghlbgdgkidnXncdgkbefcohnkX cb eddkblphdXdccpdkjgdiaXiie icggkkiXdamcaohgdkkjdmkXdckhlhdmmXmkjlpkdXXkdhgghdhmnXdkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,20,12,9,7,32,2,25,57,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111011101 0101010111 0100111101 1101001101 1101110101 01001011101 1101010100 10110011101 1011010111 0101011101 1111110101 1111110101 1001001101 11111100101 1111011100 1111111101 11001011101 1001101101 1101011111 1101110101 1101011111 1111110111 1001111111 1111110101 1101010111 1101010111 1111011101 1101101111 1111111111 1111111110 1101010111 0111011111 0111111101 1111110101 1111101101 0101100101 01110110111 0101010101 1101010101 1011011111 1001000111 1101111 101 0100110111 1101110001 1011001101 01010000101 1101101111 1001011101 01000010101 100011001 11110100111 01011111111 1101110111 1111011100 00100011101 1100111111 01001000111 1111010101 1101110111 1100110101 0101010001 1101000111 01010101111 11011101111 1001010101 1001011101 11111101001 1001011111 1111100101 0111100111 1111001101 0101010101 1111011111 1100010101 01001011100 1001010101 1111111111 1101010001 10010111111 1110100101 1110110111 1101000101 0100011100 1100110111 0101010111 1101010001 0101010101 0111010011 1101011110 1111010110 1001010111 1111010101 0100011101 0101110101 1111011101 0111011101 1001110101 1111011111 10110110001 01001010101 1111111101 1101011011 001000101001 1111110111 1011011111 1101010101 10001011011 1011110111 1101111101 1101 110111 1101101101 010010111001 1111011111 1111111111 111000111 1101011001 1101010101 10100101001 11111011111 1111101111 1111011111 0111011101 1011011111 1101111101 0011011101 1111101111 0111000111 0101011101 1111111110 1101100011 1111111101 1111011101 10111100101 1100111101 1001011111 001101011 11011010101 0101010001 100101 1101 1111101101 1011011010 1111110100 0101111111 1101001111 01001011111 1101111101 1111010101 1101011110 1101100101 111000010 1111111111 0100110111 0100011111 10010101001 0101010101 1111010111 11101011000 1011110101 01011011101 11001011101 01011011101 1100010101 0101011101 0101110101 0101110111 1101010111 1101011111 1101110 111 1110111011 1111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 825
  • Average number of words per stanza: 161
  • Amount of lines: 174
  • 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; and, they, you, my, he, his, of, i, him, from, thou, believe, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, the, i, my, for are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of A Story Of Doom: Book Iv.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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