This is an analysis of the poem Hospital Duties that begins with:
Fold away all your bright-tinted dresses,
Turn the key on your jewels today,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dededfdf ghghijXj ikikeded dadadkdk cfcfilil jhjhXjaj hmhmkjkj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111010 101111001 1010110110 11001001 1110011110 1110011110 110110110 010110010 1011010010 01101011 1100110010 01111010 111110110 11001011 1110110110 01101001 111011110 01101111 1011010110 11101011 111010010 11011001 1011111100 001001001 1010010110 11001111 00110101100 001001001 111110010 110110110 111110010 1010111010 1111010110 001001000 1110111010 11011011 1110110010 01011101 111010010 11011101 110010010 11011011 1011110010 111001001 1111101010 111011011 1110010010 11011011 1110011010 0100101 010111010 01001011 110110010 11001101 1110010010 11011011 1010010011 110110011 1010110011 101101011 1100111010 11011101 1111111110 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; your, no, more, he, there, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, some, there, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines city is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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- summary of Hospital Duties;
- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
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