This is an analysis of the poem St. Barnabas that begins with:
The world's a room of sickness, where each heart
Knows its own anguish and unrest;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcc dadaccee dfdfbbgg hfhfbbXX cccXiiff bjbjeeaa bhbhjjhh XjXjkkhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010111 10110101 0101011101 00110101 11010111001 010101 11010101 111101111101 11010101010 11111111 11110101010 01010111 1001011101 001011 01010101 100101101101 1101010011 111010101 1011110101 11011101 1111110101 110111 11011101 0100101011101 1111111001 010100101 010010011101 11011101 0100011111 010101 11010011 10010011101010 1101110101 00111101 1101010101 110010111 1011110101 111101 110101001 0110110101001 1101011111 11000101 11110101101 010100101 10101010011 110101 10110101 111101111101 1011010101 11110001 1111011101 11010111 11011101001 101101 100010101 110100110101 10011000101 011000111 11001010101 010011101 1111010111 101101 11111101 01010010101111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of, their, to, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, of are repeated.
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- summary of St. Barnabas;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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