This is an analysis of the poem The Supper Of Armor that begins with:

Bjorn, a strange cœnobite,
On the plateau of a bare rock,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabc cXcc dddd ecac fefg Xdeh gige fXjX XfeX kiki XfXf efXl lcgc lele gkXk eclc eceX efXf gege cick gbgh geXe Xaja fXfg lclc mlgl edebXmcmc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110 10010011 010100111 0100010010 10101010 011101010 110101 1010111 1100100101 1101010 101001001 10100101 10101110 0010001 0100001101 11000111 101010010 110101010 10101111 100101101 1111011010 11001101 101000110 1010111 11010111 101001011 10101001 10101011 010110111 01010101 111001001 011101010 01011100 00101110 1100101 1011110 1100101010 110001011 100111010 110101101 100100010100 1010101 11111011 11000101 0010111 1010101110 00010100 0111110110 0010101 10111100 011101010 1000100 10101011 10101101 10111110 1011101 100101101 00100110 11010111 101101010 0100010010 110001101 110101110 110100011 110101010 010111010 011101110 101010110 11000101 01110100 1010100 101011010 001100010 10101001 10100010 10001001 10010111 1101011 1110101 01000100 0011101 0010001 1110100 01011101 1110111 10001010 11111110 1100100 1010110 1111101 10100011 1110101 1011111 010100101 1011001 0111001 00100101 1110101 1011111 111110010 11010101 10101110 1010111 1010101 01101110 1110111 10100110 01010101 0110101 10010101 1010101 11110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, nor are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, where, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Supper Of Armor;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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