This is an analysis of the poem Pleasure that begins with:
A Short Poem or Else Not Say I
True pleasure breathes not city air, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab bbbb cdcd efef gcgc eheh hihi jaja Xhch ididXbhbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011111 11011101 101101 01001101 010011 11011101 011101 11010001 101101 11010101 010101 11011101 010101 11010101 101101 11011101 010101 110100100 010111 11010101 010011 11010101 110101 01110101 010101 11011101 011101 01110111 010101 11111011 110101 11001101 111101 01010111 1101111 01001111 110101 11001101 110101 11110101 110101 10110101 001101 010101101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; their is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, their, a are repeated.
The author used the same word go at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Pleasure;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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