This is an analysis of the poem The Sin that begins with:
Neath the casement stood a Ritter,
Sings by night with sweetest tone:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb cdedfdXdXghggijiebabggjgXkjkddkdhkak dlalbdadbfbfaebecbbbafafbdbdjmjmafaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,36,36,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001010 1110101 10101010 1101111 10111110 10100011 10111011 0010101 10111010 111101111 100111010 0010101 11101010 1010101 11101110 1100101 10101110 10111001 10101110 1011001 10111011 1011101 11101010 1010101 10101010 1010001 11101110 11101001 10100010 1111101 10101010 1011111 11101110 1011111 10111011 0011111 10101010 1010111 11111010 1010110 1111110 1011101 00101010 1010101 1010110 1100101 10110010 0010001 10101110 1110011 11110101 1111111 10101110 1010111 1001010010 1011101 11001010 1010101 01011101 0111010101 11101110 1010111 11100010 11010101 10101110 1011101 110101010 1110101 11111010 1011101 10111010 1011101 10101010 1010101 10011010 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 857
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words roses, all, again, seven, home are repeated.
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- summary of The Sin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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