This is an analysis of the poem The Banished Bejant that begins with:

from the unpublished remains of Edgar Allan Poe
In the oldest of our alleys,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXbcdcdc eaXacece fgfghehe hXhiejXj hXXXbcbc fkfklili
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0001001010101 00100110 1010100 10111110 1010101 10100010 111 10111010 1010111 10111110 0010111 01100010 1101 1100101110 0011 010101010 01010001 100011010 10100101 10101000 0011101 10101110 0101 100101010 01000111 110111010 1011010 011101010 1100101 010101110 1001 010001010 11110001 110101010 01110101 111111000 11010100 110101010 1111 010101010 001101 1100101110 10110101 1101101000 00010101 100101010 1011 010111110 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, playing are repeated.

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  • summary of The Banished Bejant;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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