This is an analysis of the poem A Tale Of Starvation that begins with:
There once was a man whom the gods didn't love,
And a disagreeable man was he.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX cada ecdc fghg aeie ejXj ggjX kXch eege ijXj gjjj klhl jggg lgeg mjgj jmhm nbob gkgk mmcm djaj anln aeae ffef emcm XgaX jXjX cece miii aghg kXcc ggkg gmcm oheX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101101101 1010100111 110101010101 1110100 110111101 111001001 11011001101 111101111 0101010111 110101 101011110101 110101001 111011010101 1100101101 11010110111 0111001001 11101011101 10010111 11111101111110 11011101 101110001011 101110001 01100110111110 1010101111 0110100100011 01110101 01110000101 1011110 0110110111 1011100010 001011010001 1101011010 1110111101 10100101 10111111 11110111 1111100111 1010111 11110101010001 101011111 1111110111 101001011 1010110110011 11011111 01110101 10101101 1011110101 1010010101 0110011110001 1011101 1000101010111 111111001 01101110101 1010101001 0111010111 1011111 0111000111 1010101101 1111110101 10100110101 1110100101 101100111 11101111101 10110101 111001110101 101101001 1110110101 11111001 11101010101 1010111 111011101 1101010101 101010001001 0110101 1001110101 1000101 10100101110 1110101001 11100100111 1101011011 110100101 011101 101000110011 101010101 1010111101 010111001 1011101011001 1101111 1101000101 1111111 1010111101 10110111 11101101011 101001111 101110101 01100111 1111000110 1110111 1101001111 0000111 101110110101 11111 1110110111 10101000 1110011010 111101111 1101101011 1011111 11100101101 1011101 01011110011 1110111 10111010111 11100101 011110111 11100101 1010011001 1011010101 0111010111 10111111 110010111 10100111 1110100101 101001101 11001111001 11100011101 111011101010 111011101 1110100101 1110111 011111111 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 132
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, he, his, at, had, its, flask, it, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, he are repeated.
The author used the same words it, and, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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- summary of A Tale Of Starvation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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