This is an analysis of the poem A Question Of Eligibility that begins with:
It was a bruised and battered chap
The victim of some dire mishap,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddeeffbbeegg hhiibbgXggjjii ddkkiI bbhhggeellmmmmX nneebbiIooggbbbb gXiikX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,14,14,6,15,16,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 010011011 11010111 01001001 11110101 11010001 11011111 01001101 01000011 01000100 110100101 00110101 110010001 11010111 11010101 01011111 10101001 11010000 11001111 11010101 11010101 01010111 11010111 11011111 01110101 01010110 111101001 11011111 11010111 01010101 11110011 11111101 11011101 01011001 11110001 11010101 11111101 11111101 11110111 11100101 11010001 110100011 11100011 11010101 01110101 11000101 11010101 11010101 11010111 11110101 11010101 110100101 11110101 100111010 111111010 1010101 110010101 11111111 11011111 11111111 11111101 11110111 11010011 11010101 100110101 11010101 11010101 11000101 11011101 11000101 11100110 11010001 01010101 11000110 01001101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; we, and, fit are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i've are repeated.
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- summary of A Question Of Eligibility;
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- history of its creation;
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