This is an analysis of the poem Mental Cases that begins with:
Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight?
Wherefore rock they, purgatorial shadows, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefbac XbaggXbgX dfecfbgXgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111011 10011100011 1010111110 1011111110 1110111110 111111010 1001111111 10010101110 1011111110 11111011100 10010011010 10000101110 1010111010 1010111110 1111111110 100111001010 100100011010 10111111010 1111111110 1001101111 1110111111 11101011101 111100100100 10100011010 1111101110 1010110110 1010111010 1011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 444
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; their, of are repeated.
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- summary of Mental Cases;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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