This is an analysis of the poem Astigmatism that begins with:
The Poet took his walking-stick
Of fine and polished ebony.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcdddbcecfghhhhgiAc F XdggXjch d XfdjgfjhX X geffdiXcdccjh Fd jhgddbbcXhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,1,8,1,9,1,13,2,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 01110100 100111 01010 10010 10010101 011110100 10100101 110101001 10011 10010 10010110101 01110010 0010000100 0110101100 010101 01011010 0011001 01010101 1101 100110 01010011 10101010 10110011101 01010001 010111111 101011100 1011 101101111001010 100110111 0101001 10111100010 001010101 0111010 0101001 10101100010 110011110 1001001010 1011100 10011000101 01010010 10100101 10001110111110 1010110110 001110010 1111011010 010110110010 101101000101 111001010011 1111110 111110101 1111110 10011001010 100110 101100101110 01011110 100101 1111001 0101011001010 1101101111 010101100 110010110100 11101 10010110101 1000101011001010 100110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to, his, and, of, gold, red are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, a, the, red are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of Astigmatism;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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