This is an analysis of the poem The Unpardonable Sin that begins with:
This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: —
To speak of bloody power as right divine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXb Xcac cdXdXAbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0001010101 01010101101 1111011111 1111110111 0111001101 1001010101 1001110001 10010100101 0101010111 1111000101 0101010100 1111010111 0001010101 0001110101 0111000101 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, this, to are repeated.
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- summary of The Unpardonable Sin;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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