This is an analysis of the poem The Prohibition that begins with:
Take heed of loving me,
At least remember, I forbade it thee;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXXaa aXcbcbaa ddaaaadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101 1101010101 11110111001 0111011111 11001110111 1111111110 1111111110 0111110101 110101 1111000100 1111011100 1101010101 1111010100 0111010111 1111010101 0111110101 111111 1101110101 1111110101 1101111111 1111011101 1111111100 1111111101 0111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; me, love, and are repeated.
The author used the same word take 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 me is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Prohibition;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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