This is an analysis of the poem Samson that begins with:

Samson, the strongest of the children of men, I sing; how he was foiled by woman's arts, by a false wife brought to the gates of death! O Truth! that... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100100010011111111101101110010111110001011011010100101000010101100110101110010111011100010111001011101010101010111111111100110100101100101011011001111111011111011110001010111010101100101010101011010111010111001011011110011110101011101001001111101110011101010101010111101110111100011010011101011101010101011001011111010010110110011101110011010111101011101101101111111101010010101011110111101001001111111111111100101110001101110111001000101111111011111011111110110110111100101110111101111111010101011100101011111101110101110111110101010111101111111010111011111111111110111100111111101001111010101111110110011110011001011111101111011101111110111110111101101101111111010110111101111111010111010010101110101010101110110011101100010101100110111110111111111110100110111010111111111111110101100110111111110011011101001101011101000010111110010010010111111111111110110111011101111111101101111111111011011111000111111101001110010010111111010111011111110011101111111111011011011101011100101111001011111111110110110111111011111101000111111110101110101011010110011111101010111111111010011011111010110111111101111101010110111101011010101111101011101011111110100100110110111111000101010111111111101111011101100101100101110111101010110101011111111110100111101010111010010011011101101101010101110010111001101111011101011101010111100011101011101010100101111101010101001010011110101000100001010101010110101111100111111110001101001011001110101110111011101110101000101110100101011111101110101011111000101100101111001100101110101011111010101000111011101110111011001010111011001001111111111001111100100010110111101010101010101110011100010111111101010101001110101011010111101010111110111111011101111101010111101010111101110011010111010111010101011000101001101111001011101010010101010101010101010110100011111010010101101111100101101001111110011100110100011101010111010011010101111010111101101010111010011101111110011110111111011111111101011110100101010101000111001000010101110110010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8393
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1541
  • Amount of lines: 1
  • Average number of symbols per line: 8393 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 1541
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Samson;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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