This is an analysis of the poem The Skipper that begins with:
A rough old nut,
A tough old nut...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddeeccff ggddhhbb eeaabbiiX ijjbbkkaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,8,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 0111 0010 1011 101 101010 111011110 111111010 10110101 01101111 1011010001 101111111 11010101110 11011010110 1111001111 1110010111 1011100111 1010110101 1100111101 11001111001 1100111010 11001101010 11001001001 10101101001 0010101101 10111001001 10101001110 11001001110 1010110111 101101011001 11101001111 110100101 1101111011 1101110101 11101010110 10101111110 1111110101 1101101001 101100101 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; like, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, loves, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nut is repeated).
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- summary of The Skipper;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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