This is an analysis of the poem Gertrude's Prayer that begins with:
That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend,
Nor water out of bitter well make clean;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXX XaXXbX cdcdbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111111 1101010111 1101100101 11001001101 0101010010 1001010110 0100110101 1001011101 0101110010 0010110111 1101111101 1001010110 1010010101 1101001000 1100110101 1101010101 110101111 1001010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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 is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word againe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Gertrude's Prayer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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