This is an analysis of the poem Those Who Sit that begins with:
Dark with knobbed growths,
peppered with pock-marks like hail, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdadeddXd aXdXe fdage XaXX XhXd gdiadbceb afhbi dbagXdi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,5,5,4,4,9,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 1001111 11101 1101011111 1110101001 10101111 0100101110 11110 0011100011 1110110110 101001 111111011011 1011101100100101 111010101 1010101 100001010001 1111100 10101011 00100000110 010010111 1011010101010 10101111011 101011101101011 10001001101010100 1111111100101 111011000100 1111101111 101011011 11011111011 111000111 111001011 1011001101 11110101011 11100100100 11111010010111 0101110110 010101101 11110010010 100110100011 110111110 11101011 11001010 10111101 1011011011 11111010101 001101010110101011 100110101101001 011011011100 10110101 111010010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; their, with, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Those Who Sit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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