This is an analysis of the poem Down, But Not Out that begins with:
Oh, how I hate these chills, these winter ills,
Bleak blasts and breezes;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXabXcX aaXXadcd aefeXghg XdbXhfbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111101 11110 1000010110 11010010 11011010101 11010101110 1101101101 010001011110 1101011111 11110 1101010101 11010 1111111101 10110111010 1111010101 11100101010 1101011101 110100 1101111101 100100 1101111101 111101110110 1111010111 111100110100 11101111011 111100 0111010101 11110 11111101001 11010111111 1101111111 111000111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Down, But Not Out;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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