This is an analysis of the poem The Importunate Widow that begins with:
Our Lord, who knows full well
The heart of every saint;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bbbX cece efef bgbg chXh ieie hcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 0101001 01110100 011101 110101 110101 11111101 111101 110001 111101 11110111 101000 110101 010111 01001101 111101 101101 110101 11110101 110101 111111 110101 11111101 111101 111101 010111 11110110 110011 010111 011111 11110101 111001 111100 110101 11110000 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.
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- summary of The Importunate Widow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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