This is an analysis of the poem Thomas À Kempis that begins with:
Brother of mine, good monk with cowlëd head,
Walled from that world which thou hast long since fled,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cXdd eeff ggdd hhff iidd ggjj bbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100101011 1011111111 1101110101 111101 1111101100 1101001101 1101101101 011101 1001110101 1101000101 01010010001 011111 1011010101 1101010101 0101010011 010101 1111000101 1011010101 0100111101 110011 1011110111 1100010101 1011110101 110001 1011010111 11111100100 0101010101 110101 1111111101 0100110101 1101010111 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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 Thomas À Kempis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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