This is an analysis of the poem Saint Sebastian that begins with:
On slow and smoky fire thou burn'st and art consumed,
O thou, my soul! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAb CdCd EfEf GhGh AXAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010111101 1111 1111010111101 0101 1101010101010 0111 1101010101010 1111 1101011101010 1101 1101011101010 1111 0101110001010 10101 0101110001010 10111 1101111011110 0101 1101111011110 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, thou, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.
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- summary of Saint Sebastian;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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