This is an analysis of the poem The Doctor that begins with:
The doctor took my shirt away;
He did it for the best;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbabbcdcXceecec bfgggXfgfedXdXX hhddhgigieXeX jkjXjk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,15,13,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 100101 11110110 110111 11010101 111001 11011101 111111 11110011 010111 1111010010 110101 11011111 11110101 110011 101010111 110101 11111101 110111 01011111 11011111 11010111 11011100 010101 11010111 110111 111101001 1111001 10101010 010111 11010100 110100 11111101 111111 11110011 11110100 010101 01011101 010001 11110101 110101 11010111 111101 11010111 1101110 111101001 110101 11110101 111101 10111101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; he, and, this, must, not, or, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, not, have, and, you are repeated.
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- summary of The Doctor;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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