This is an analysis of the poem The Vigil that begins with:
THE rain is falling on the roof,
And no sound else disturbs the wife,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcddceefggfhhfXXfiiaccaffjffjeeiXhifffkkfiibaabddeeeeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11110101 01011111 11111101 110010101 11010101 01010101 01111111 01010111 11011101 01110111 01010101 01010101 10011111 11111111 01010101 1111011110 010101010 10110101 11011101 10110100 11110111 010011111 11010100 01010101 11011101 10110111 11011101 11010101 01011101 01110111 11010101 11010011 11010101 11110111 01011100 01010101 110101001 11010100 11000101 11000101 11010101 01110111 11011111 11110111 01011101 11111111 11110001 01110101 01110101 01000101 11010101 11011101 11110101 10111101 10110111 110110101 11111111 11111111 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2153
- Average number of words per stanza: 411
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, she, his, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, upon, the, and, he are repeated.
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- summary of The Vigil;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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