This is an analysis of the poem The Countess that begins with:
TO E. W.
I KNOW not, Time and Space so intervene,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaaabbccddeeddddffgghhehbbeeeeeiicceeddaaaggeebb jaja akak eXeX egeg gege alal eded eeee dede eaea mdmd nfnf oaoX dddd pbpb cdcd Xeee lclc caca eheh haha caca Xgqg iqiq gngn cece rarX gngn cXca agaX aeaeXnbnb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,48,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01100 1111111101 1011000101 1101110011 11111110100 1111010101 1111111001 0111111101 1011100101 0111001111 11010000101 0111111111 1111010101 10001011101 0111011100 1111110101 00110010111 1101101101 10101001001 11010010100 1011000111 1111000111 0101011101 1011011101 1011101101 1111111101 01011111001 1100010101 1011110111 0101000111 1101010101 1101110111 11110100011 1001110111 1111110101 11101111101 0111110111 1001111101 1111011111 0101011101 01010010111 1101011101 01110101001 01001100101 10110100011 1101010101 1111010100 0110111111 1101011101 10010101 010101 00110001 011101 11011111 010111 01000101 011001 01011101 010111 01010111 111100 01110101 010111 01010011 010111 01011001 010111 01100101 110011 11011101 011111 11010101 010101 11010101 011101 11110101 110101 01110111 0100101 11011110 010101 11110111 010101 11010001 011101 01010101 010101 100101001 010111 11010101 110101 01010101 011001 110101001 010111 110101011 011101 01010101 011011 01111101 110110 11111111 0111001 11011101 010111 10111100 010011 11010100 110101 11100101 110111 11010101 010101 11001101 110101 11011111 100101 01010111 1100101 01111101 010101 10010111 110111 01011111 010101 11011101 010111 11010100 010101 11111111 011101 10011100 110101 11010101 110101 01110001 110011 111101110 010111 011101101 010111 11011101 010101 010011101 010111 01010101 010101 11010111 0101001 01010101 011111 01110111 011101 11010111 1101001 01000101 110110 1111001001 1111101 01011111 010111 10110001 0101100 11000101 1101010 01010111 010111 01010111 110111 11010111 0101010 11011101 0101110 11011101 110101 11011101 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 35
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 178
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, he 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.
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- summary of The Countess;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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