This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Stephen that begins with:
As some tall rock amidst the waves,
The fury of the tempest braves;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd Xcee eeff ggXa hhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 01000101 10110101 11011101 11100101 110111001 10111101 11011101 110101000 01000101 01011101 01010101 01110101 01001101 110010101 11011101 01011101 11011111 10110111 11010101 11110111 11010101 01111111 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
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- summary of The Death Of Stephen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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