This is an analysis of the poem The Riddle Read that begins with:
I THANK my God I ever lived to see the blessèd day,
When the spirit's immortality to me is rendered clear...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdcd efgeg hihi aieai cjecje bcdbXd ikiXk lmlm iXciX kfcXkc cdccd didiXdcijddi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,4,5,6,6,5,4,5,6,5,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110101011 101010100010101 11010101110101 11010101111101 11110101111 111 11010101010111 11011100010101 110110010100101 10010001111101 111111001110 1001 01010111010101 11010101110101 11100111011001 01010100010001 010100100111111 100101001000101 11011100000101 110101010010101 011111011111 00 101010100011110 01100111010101 0111010111010 1 10010101110111 1111110111000 1 110100101010001 0101110101010 1 1111010011101001 1101011101110 1 11001010110101 011101010111001 11100101010101 110101010100 01 11001100101011 0101101001101001 11011111011100 11000111010101 11001111011101 110001110101010 111001011111 11 11010001110101 0101001110011 01110111010 101 10101010101010 1 01010100010101 01010101010101 01010100011101 01010111010101 1101000101010 1 01101101111101 11011101110001 11011101010101 01000101011111 11110111110111 111101010101 11 1101010111010 1 110111100111 01
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, long, in, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words long, to are repeated.
The author used the same words not, in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Riddle Read;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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