This is an analysis of the poem The New Helen that begins with:
WHERE hast thou been since round the walls of Troy
The sons of God fought in that great emprise?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacbdeed ceaefcgXgX cgegcXhXih gjajgahfha ifXaciXcck lablbfikki dceXeXcaca idaidaemme dhbdbhnddn eoXeohXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110110101 0101101101 1111110101 1101010101 0101010101 11001010101 1100111101 1001010001 1101110011 00010010101 1111010101 01001011101 1001110001 1011010111 1111011100 11011101001 1011010101 1111011101 01110010101 011010100 1111011101 011111101 111110101 0111110101 0101110101 0011011000 1101010011 1011010100 1011110111 1101110111 1110010101 11001010111 1101010101 111000100101 1011010111 1101110101 111111101 1101110100 01010101001 0101010101 1111001101 0110010100 11001110100 1001110111 01000111001 0111010101 1101110100 1101010001 1001010101 1001000110 0101110101 1011101101 1111010011 11011100111 0101010011 1111011100 11110111001 1111111101 1111110111 0011011111 0101111101 1111010001 1101010101 1111110111 1001001101 101101100 1111011101 10010010111 1011001101 1111011101 1101010101 1101011101 1011010111 1001011011 01011111111 1011110111 1101110111 0101010101 001010010001 1011010101 1111110101 1101010001 10010100101 1111010101 1001100101 11001011101 1111110101 11110101001 1101010111 1101000101 1001110100 10010011010 1111110010 1111001101 10010101010 1001000101 10011100100 11011100100 1110110101 10110011000
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 528
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, and, of, that, helen are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words only, so, aimlessly are repeated.
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- summary of The New Helen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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