This is an analysis of the poem The Bride Of Corinth that begins with:
ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came,
Who in Athens lived, but hoped that he...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX bbb cdcd ccd dddd dXd ecec fXc gcgc ddc haXa ggX bdbd hhX ibXX eeX ihih hhX fcfc eeX ibib jjX hihi bbX eheh bbX Xici cci dkdk llk bgbg ggX aaaa llX ldld ccd mhmh llh jljl iil cfcX ggf acac eec bhbh bbh fjfj iij ieie hhe dndn iin jhjh ooh hdXd ppX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101 101011111 001010111 101011100 11101 10101 101011110 111111101 111011101 111011001 111001101 10101 11101 111011101 101011101 101010101 101010001 101100101 11111 11110 101011111 111110101 101010101 111010101 111111101 11101 10101 101010101 1010010111 101110101 001111101 100010101 11101 10111 101111101 101011100101 101011111 111101101 111110111 11111 10101 10111011100 10110100101 100010101 1011010101 101010101 11101 11111 101000010100 1011110101 101110111 1010101010 111011100 11101 11101 111010101 10011101110 101110101 1010011010 101010101 10111 10111 10101010100 111110111 101011011 1000110111 111110101 10111 11101 0110011010 1001110101 111010111 110010101 101010101 10111 11111 1010111000 1011010111 101010101 110110101 111110111 10111 10101 11111011000 101110011 111010101 101010101 100010101 100111 11101 1110110110 10101001110 111110101 001010111 111011111 10101 10101 111110101 001010111 1110010101 101010111 111110101 00111 11111 101110101 111110101 10110111001 011011101 111010101 10111 11111 0111111110 111010001 111010101 1011101011 1000011101 11111 10101 11111110100 111010111 111001101 001011101 100010101 01101 10101 111010001 001011111 101010011 101110111 101011101 101110 111010 101111101 001101101 111110000 101011101 1010101001 100111 11101 1011001111 101010101 110010101 1001110111 101101010100 10111 11011 101010111 101100101 0011100101 001010101 111000101 10101 00101 101010001 10010010111 1011110101 001111101 111010001 01011 01101 101010101 1001110101 101010101 101010101 111010101 10111 10101 1101110111 10110101110 1010010111 1011101110 101010101 11101 10101 001010101 011010111 101011101 101011111 101100101 10101 11101 101111101 1001110111 111011111 011010101 100010101 100110 110010 100110111 1000010111 1010010101 101111111 101110101 101010 001010 0010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 56
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 197
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, she, and, thou, as, her, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, still are repeated.
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- summary of The Bride Of Corinth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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