This is an analysis of the poem The Weakling that begins with:
I AM a weakling. God, who made
The still, strong man, made also me. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcadc cefcef cbXcdX agcagc hcahca idjidj ekeeke ciXcif ibfibf fiafia aagaafXcabcaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 01111101 01110101 00110101 01011100 11010101 01110101 11010111 11010100 11010101 01110101 011000101 11110101 0110111 11010101 01010101 100101000 11111000 11110111 101100010 01110001 11000001 110001010 11110101 11010101 10110101 10010111 11110101 11110101 110100101 11001111 1000110100 11110101 01001101 11010100 111111000 11110101 01010101 11110001 11110111 11010101 10011001 11100101 11001111 110010111 11010101 10101100 110100101 11010111 11011111 01010101 11001101 01010111 01110101 01100111 10110111 01111110 11111001 11010011 10111111 11111010 11000101 11110100 11110111 11011001 11010000 11111101 10110101 11011111 11011101 11110111 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2894
- Average number of words per stanza: 460
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; this, and, their, they, me, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, they, some, i are repeated.
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- summary of The Weakling;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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