This is an analysis of the poem Original Sin that begins with:
The man-brained and man-handed ground-ape, physically
The most repulsive of all hot-blooded animals ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXbXdbbbXea bfbbX cd edXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,5,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111110111000 0101001110100 1011001111011 110101111111 10101111010110 010101011011010110 1011011100100 0100101011010 1101111111110 10110111101 11000011110101011 01111101101 10100101001 11010 110011010100011 1111101101110100101 1010010101110011001011 011100101100110101001010 1011011001 11010 0001011111110 0010011010101 111111111010 101101011110 110010110101101 1111000101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, they, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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- summary of Original Sin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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