This is an analysis of the poem Old Dwarf Heart that begins with:
True. All too true. I have never been at home in
life. All my decay has taken place upon a child....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX cbbdbc eeaaee ddeebd cfXefc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111100110 1110111010101 1000111110 111101 111101 111001111 0110110111 01100111111001 11001110 111001 1101011 10011011 00110110101 11101010111 11101 010111 110111 001100101 010101101 1011101001101 1111111 11111101 11000101 1100101001 1111001101 1001111001111101 1010010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, in, i are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Old Dwarf Heart;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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