This is an analysis of the poem The Little Cripple's Complaint that begins with:
I'm a helpless cripple child,
Gentle Christians, pity me; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dbdbee fafabb cbcbbb bgbghh bibigGXbbbbgG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010101 1010101 1010111 1111110 1010101 10100111 1010111 1010111 10011101 1111101 1110111 1000101 1010111 1011101 1010101 1001101 1010101 01101001 1110101 1110111 1110101 1011101 10101001 1011101 0110101 1001101 1010111 1110101 1111111 1011101 1111101 1010101 1011101 11100101 1011111 1001101 1110101 1110101 1010101 1011101 1111101 1001101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Little Cripple's Complaint;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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