This is an analysis of the poem The Handicap that begins with:
I think I should suit, for I've knowledge minute
Of all tickets, time-tables, and trains;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbXcXc XacaXcXc XaXabcbc aaXacdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111001 011011011 110110110110 11001111 11111001010 111101011 101001101011 111111011 1111010111110 11011011 001011001011 111111111 1111010111010 11001101 101001111111 101001001 111001011001 11111011 1111100111010 011111001 111011111001 111111111 111010101101 111111001 1010010011010 01011001 111001101001 1110110001 11011011101 111011011 101101111101 111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word there at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Handicap;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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