This is an analysis of the poem The Master that begins with:
Now when the darkness came over the earth Joseph of Arimathea,
having lighted a torch of pinewood, passed down from the hill into... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX Xbcd ceX XbdeaeXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110011001000 10100101001100100 010111100011 110101100100101011 01111101100110100 101010110110111100 1001110111110101 111110101001111 10110111101110011 11011011 1011101011111110 1111111110001111 1010110100111101 010100100011111 1011101000101111 111110101101011 110101011010100101 110011110111111 10111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, his, he, had, who, for, i, have are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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