This is an analysis of the poem The Trial that begins with:
During his great speech the prosecutor
kept piercing me with his yellow index finger ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbdX XefXdccb gbXef faaf hXdefgaXb dggg fbXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,5,4,9,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101010 110100101010 00111001101 101000111010110100 101100110100101 0010010011 10111010010 100110011001 0111010010 1101001100110 010001110100 01000101000100 101001001011010 110101010100 11101010001001 0011111110 1111100001001011 0100001011101 011100111111011 01100111100010010 011011011 11001010100 100101010101011001110010 11001011110 110101111 11100110100101 010010010010 001101010 1011101 110100111 011101010 110010110 01011010101 11101011101 1010100100010010 10110011010 0101001010110 11111111011 111101111 1100110111 11010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, to are repeated.
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- summary of The Trial;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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