This is an analysis of the poem Spleen that begins with:
I'm like the king of a rain-country, rich
but sterile, young but with an old wolf's itch, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccddeeccbbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101001101 1101101111 1101100001000 1101010001 1011110100 0101010100 0100010101 1101110101 0101010101 1001000111 1111001011 10011010100 01011011001 1001010100 1001011100 1101000100 1101101111 010110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 753
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Spleen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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