This is an analysis of the poem Harriet Beecher Stowe that begins with:

She told the story, and the whole world wept
At wrongs and cruelties it had not known...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101010111 1111000111 1101010101 1101001111 010101101 0101000101 0111000001 1001010101 01110101001 11111000001 1001110101 1101101101 1011011111 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 614
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; be is repeated.

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  • summary of Harriet Beecher Stowe;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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