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

Darkness: the rain sluiced down; the mire was deep;
It was past twelve on a mid-winter night, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbccdd efeffgdgd acacchfh fififfjjgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100110101011 0111101101 1101011101 1011010101 11011111111 0101010101 1101100101 10111101001 1001010011 1100111001 01010110101 1101011001 10001110111 1111111001 11010001001 1101000111 1001011101 0101010101 1101100101 1111010111 1101110101 0101111101 1111111101 1101000101 1001100101 1011110001 1110111101 1111000100 10001011101 1111111101 1101010111 1001011101 1011111111 11010100101 1111010001 10011010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; we, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Redeemer;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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