This is an analysis of the poem Jonah that begins with:
Thus sung the king—some angel reach a bough
From Eden's tree to crown the wisest brow;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX ddeeffdd Xfgghhffiiddjjaahh aacchhbb ffbbffcCkkhhaajj llddbbccjj jjllhh mmhhjjaajj iiddaa XXhhbb XfaahhddddXfXbdd jjff nnjjaahhddddggbbddhhllbbbbkkiihhddbbhhbbaaoojjnnbbXdkkpp iibb ddhhjj bbiicCdd ddaallhhaa ffbbllaacchhaallhhXffllaabbjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,18,8,16,10,6,10,6,6,16,4,56,4,6,8,10,29,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110101 0101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1100111101 11111100100 1011010101 0101010101 1111001101 1111011101 1111010101 0101010101 1101100101 1111010101 1111111110 1111011101 1101111101 10101010101 1111010101 0101010101 1111010111 11110100101 0101111101 1101010101 01010011111 1011011101 1101110101 0111011101 1101011101 0111010101 0101010111 1111111111 1101011101 0101111101 1111010101 1111111101 1111111111 1101011001 1101010101 1101000101 1101111101 1101110101 0011111111 1011111101 1111010001 1011010101 1101010101 1101110011 1111110001 11111000111 1011111101 1111011101 1111010111 0101011101 1101011111 1101010101 0101010101 10011010101 1101010101 1110010101 1101010101 0101011101 1101011111 1001011100 1101011101 0101000101 1101010101 1101110111 0111110101 0101010101 1101011111 1101000111 1101111101 1101000101 1111011001 1101111101 0101011001 1101111110 0101011101 1101010101 1011111101 1101011101 0101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 0101011101 1011111111 1101110101 11111001010 0001011101 0111000101 0101111101 1111010101 01011101010 0101111111 1101010101 0101010101 0111111101 1101010101 0111110101 0101110101 11001010101 1101000101 01011101010 1101010101 0101010111 1101010101 1001010111 1011010111 1001010101 1101010101 1111010101 0101010101 1111010101 1111010101 1101000111 1001010101 0111010101 1101110101 1101000101 1101010101 1111010101 0101011101 11010010111 1101010101 1111110101 1111111101 1101000101 1111010101 1111010111 1111110111 0011000101 0101000101 0111111101 1111111101 1001111101 1001010101 1001110101 0111011101 0101010101 1101001101 1101111011 1111011101 1101111111 1111011111 1011111101 1101111101 0101011101 1111010101 1101011111 1101010101 0101010101 11010010111 11001010101 1011011101 1101111111 1101111101 10101111101 1111011101 1111110111 1111011101 1111011101 1011010111 01110100100 0111011101 1101111101 0101110101 1011010111 0101001111 1101010101 0101111101 1111011101 1001111101 0101010101 0101110101 0111010101 1101010101 1101110101 1111110101 0101010101 1101010111 10011101101 1101110111 1011110101 1101110011 1101110001 1101001101 1101010101 1111011101 1101010101 0111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010111 1111011111 1111100101 11011101001 0110111101 0101110101 1101110101 1101110101 01011110111 1101010101 1111010101 1111110101 1001011001 0101111111 1111111101 0101010101 1101100101 10010100101 1001110101 1101111011 1101110001 0101111101 1101011101 0101001101 1101110111 0101010101 1101010101 1100010101 0101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 529
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 226
- 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; to, and, his, they, i, he, my, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, the, now, cast, her are repeated.
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- summary of Jonah;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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