This is an analysis of the poem Where's The Poker? that begins with:
The poker lost, poor Susan storm'd,
And all the rites of rage perform'd; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcbbddXXccddeeeecceebbddffggddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 11010101 110101010 010100110 1001100110 010101110 011100010 110111010 11011101 11101101 110001111 1101010100 11110111 01010101 11110101 10111101 01110011 11010101 01111101 11110111 1001111110 011101010 11100101 11011111 010100010 010110110 11010011 00111101 110111010 001111010 0011101110 010101010 011111010 111110010 101101010 110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1375
- Average number of words per stanza: 239
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; she, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
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- summary of Where's The Poker?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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