This is an analysis of the poem To Be Amused that begins with:
You ask me to be gay and glad
While lurid clouds of danger loom, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefcgcg dadahdhd ihihjada jdjdafaX kdkXljlj ldldidid kdkdfmfX lnlnjaXaXmdmdjaja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11100111 11010101 111111001 01010001 11110111 010111001 11111011 11010101 01010111 00011111 01110100 01110101 01110101 0100010101 11011101 1010100101 11010101 01010101 10010101 11011101 01010101 01110101 01110111 01110100 11110101 11010001 111101001 01010111 11111110 11111101 110100100 01010011 1101101 11010111 010001001 11000101 11011101 11111101 01011100 01010100 11010101 01010111 01010001 11011100 01010101 01100101 11111111 01110010 11010011 01011101 11111111 01110001 11110111 01011101 11110101 11111100 11011101 01011101 11000101 11110101 11010111 11011111 11110001 11111111 01111111 11011111 11110101 01010101 11010101 01111101 1101010010 1100011011 11110101 11111100 11111101 11010100 01100111 11011001 11011101 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, from, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To Be Amused;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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