This is an analysis of the poem The Convalescent that begins with:
We've billiards, bowls an' tennis courts, we've teas an' motor-rides;
We've concerts nearly every night, an' 'eaps o' things besides;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XbXbX ccbb ddbb eebb eebb ffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011101111101 110101001111101 11010101111111 11111110101 010101001110101 111111111111 0111 11111101010101 11111110101 01001111010101 01010101010111 110101001110101 10101010101 010110101111101 01011111010111 0101111010100101 10101110101 110011101111101 11110101010011 11011101010111 00111110101 11010111110101 01010101011101 1101010101101 1101010101 11011101110101 1110111111101 101011111110111 10111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we've, an', to, my, like, i'd are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we've, the, my are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word street at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Convalescent;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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