This is an analysis of the poem A Pickbrain that begins with:

What! imitate me, friend? Suppose that you
With agony and difficulty do... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110111 0100110001 1111001111 0111001111 0101011101 10010100101 1101011001 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, i are repeated.

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  • summary of A Pickbrain;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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