This is an analysis of the poem The Monks Of Basle that begins with:
I tore this weed from the rank, dark soil
Where it grew in the monkish time, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb d efgX chch egig hifi ffff hbfb X cdbd jfff cXjf ehgh Xchc X adhd hXfX hfbf ffff cdXd X efefXjfef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110100111 10100101 110111001 00100101 1 1001101011 111101 110101101 0010100 0111101010 1110101 0111101010 11100101 1100101011 0111011 1101001101 110011 0011100101 1101101 110101101 1011101 11011101 1010101 110011101 110101 101011111 110101 1110100101 1100111 1 111111001 10100101 100101001 011111 010100111 010111 1011100101 11111011 110110111 11110110 101010111 0010111 0111010111 00100101 111100011 1110011 00111101 0011101 110101101 0111001 1 101011101 101110011 1001010101 1011001 100010001 110111 111101000101 0001110 010011111 1111011 1001111111 0101101 1011100111 101010011 011110101 0110111 010111101 010101 111100101 1111001 1 110100101 0101111 11111101 1100101 110101011 110101 11110111 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; it, as, their, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, and, a are repeated.
The author used the same words i, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Monks Of Basle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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