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

And when two days were over, Japhet said,
'Mother, so please you, get a wife for me.'... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbaacXaddbdbdecdfgaXhbcgbagigafcbajXdc fgdeaXklbfcbXXXaamneXobXgapgcXXjccjlaaaXlXmhkcgqhjdmkfmXcXclpblXaaccdgoaae dedmkhdpahbmaXrdccaecmrjkbgccmarfplaaXc afcXihiaXcahdbcjraXbiiXdcrcpXkfbXaXaXcrdfksqdgjaXabXefaaajaafffXcrdcjajkdsckssfaagXchXbanoaXffapXb a
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,74,39,98,3,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 1011110111 0101011111 1101001101 11110011101 110110101011 1111011101 0101111101 11110100111 1111111101 1101010101 11110110011 1010011111 1111000111 0101010101 1101110111 0101100111 1111010111 1101110010 1110110111 1001110101 110110010 1 10110100111 10110111011 1111010111 0011111001 1111010111 0111110111 1101111101 1001110111 1111111101 0111011111 1101110101 0111010111 1101011101 11010101100 11001011111 0101110111 1101011101 1101110100 1111010111 1000111101 01110001101 11001101010 1101011111 0111111101 1101011111 101111111 0111101111 1001010111 0101010110 0111011101 01010 111001 1101010111 0101011111 0111110100 1101010111 011100101010 1111001111 1101011111 11111011100 1101011111 00011101001 1101110001 0111110101 0111001101 1110010 1110 01101100101 1101011111 0100010111 1101010101 1101011101 1110011001 1111010101 1110001101 0101111100 1110010011 11111111100 1101010111 11010010101 1001111101 1101010011 1001110101 1101010101 10011011001 1101010101 1101011011 11011101101 1101100111 1100011111 11011101101 0100010001 1110011101 0111011101 1101110101 10111000111 0101010001 1110011101 0101011111 11110101101 0101100110 1111010101 1101101101 1111110111 1111011101 1111100101 11011001111 10010110111 0101110101 1011111001 11001000101 1101010111 1010110011 1111111111 1111011111 1101110100 1111010101 1101011101 1011100101 1101011101 1100010 101 11110101101 1100111101 1101010110 01001011110 1101000101 1111110101 1100110101 0111010111 10001010111 0101110111 0011111101 11110101 11 01001111101 1111111111 1001011111 1111011100 0101110101 1111111111 01001011101 1111110111 1001011111 0101111111 1101110111 1101111111 1111110111 1101010111 1111010111 0100011101 1111010101 010101110 1001011101 0101011101 10111101110 1011010101 0011110111 0111110101 11110100111 01010010001 1101011111 11011001101 1101010111 11110011111 1111111101 0101000111 1 111011101 1001110111 1111110011 1011011101 1100010101 1101000101 1001010101 0100110101 0111101001 11100101110 11110010101 0111000101 0101111101 1011011111 0111011101 01111 10101 1111011111 1111110101 0101010101 1111011101 1100011111 1111011101 0111110101 1101111101 0010011111 10111101101 0101110111 0101010101 01110 10111 1111110101 1101010001 11001011101 1111111111 11110101111 1011011111 1011011111 1101011101 1001011011 11011011100 1111110111 1001010111 0101010111 110 1110001 1101110111 0100011101 0100010011 1100010101 11110100101 1101110001 1101100111 0101011101 1111010111 1101010111 0100101101 1111011111 1101111111 0100010001 01011110110 1010110111 1100111100 01010110101 1011010111 1001011110 1101011000 10010101001 1011010101 11111001100 1111010101 1101100111 11110 10111 1101001001 0101110111 11100001101 1011111101 1100011111 1101010101 1111010111 1101110101 1111011101 0100011101 1101111111 0100100111 1101001101 0101010101 1111010101 1101111101 1101110101 0101011111 0101011110 0101010000 1111011101 1111011101 1011111101 01010011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1901
  • Average number of words per stanza: 369
  • Amount of lines: 269
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; thou, and, not, my, with, wed, she, had, if, be, her, wife, thee, i, for, his, to, ', in, sir are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, for, to 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 wrought, thee, sir, ' are 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 V.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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