This is an analysis of the poem Ruth that begins with:
When Ruth was left half desolate,
Her Father took another Mate; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddeffe ffagga hhXeea iijgkj llgffg mmgggg aahbbh aafiif nneeee bbhjjo llegge ohbbbb ggmppX Xqfeef gghbbH bbhXgH aaXggX llehhe bbaeea ggbffb bbabba aaeaae Xfahha ddfXbf jjecce aafbbf bbfbbf bbkeek ggfaaX ffhqqh bbhrrh bbbiiX pXgccg ffbaab ffgffg eeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 01010101 1111001 01011010 110010111 010101 11110101 11001111 110111 110100101 10100110 110001 01010101 11010101 010101 10011111 11010111 110101 11010101 01010111 010101 11000101 01010001 110101 010011111 11110101 110101 11010011 01010100 110101 01010101 01010111 111101 01010001 11110111 100101 11010111 01000100 111111 11110111 11010111 010101 010100111 10110111 010101 11110101 11010011 010001 11010101 11110111 1101001 010110111 01000101 111011 11011101 11010101 0101001 010101010 110100010 010101 11000101 11011101 010101 010101101 10010111 0101110 01011001 110110101 010101 01010101 11001101 010101 10100111100 01010101 011101 01001101 110111011 0101001 101111011 11010101 110101 11010011101 11000101 1111110 11101100 11010101 1010011101 01011101 11110011 110101 101111101 11000100 111101 11110101 01010111 110101 1000101111 010011111 010101 110110011 01010101 110101 101110011 10011101 01010100 101101111 10111101 111101 11110011 01010101 111101 11100111 01010111 010011 11110101 01010111 100101 11001101 11010101 0100001 01010101 01000101 1101001 110101110 110111010 110101 11001111 01000111 000101 01001111 001101101 010001 110101001 01010101 1111010 01011101 01110111 00110010 10010111 10110101 110101 11010111 11011111 010100 11111101 01011101 110111 0100011000 11110101 110101 01010101 01011101 0101010 01101101 11100101 100001 11101101 11010111 110111 11111101 11011101 111101 01110011 101110111 111111 010111001 11010011 1100101 1001101001 11010101 010100 11011111 11101101 011100 101001111 11110011 010111 11010001 10111001 0101100 11110111 11110111 111111 11001101 11011101 110101 11110101 11010001 110011 11110101 01001111 110111 11111111 11010111 100101 110100101 10110101 1100100 101101011 110111111 111001 11000001 10110101 0100101 11110111 11010001 100101 10010111 11010111 010101 01011101 01010001 110011 11000101 10111101 100111 01000101 11010111 111101 01011101 11010001 110100 01010101 11010101 110101 11100101 11010111 110111 110011101 11010101 010111 11111111 01110100 011111 01011101 10010001 010011 11111111 11110101 0101001 11010001 11011001 010011 01100111 11000101 010101 11110101 10010101 111101 110100111 11111111 011101 11111111 11010101 111100 110100111 11010101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 43
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 258
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, her, he, his, so, no, as, nor, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his, the, had, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word deer at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Ruth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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