This is an analysis of the poem The Invalid that begins with:

The pale young man he comes to me,
An' chats me good an' fair;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbabcX dedebb fgfgff XhXhcc hihidX agagcc jcjcff kfkfhh kkkkff leleff AlaXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111101 111011 110111011 1000011 11111101 11100111 11111111 101101 110101001 111111 01010111 11001101 11110101 111101 11011110 001101 11010111 11111101 11110110 111101 110011100 110111 11010101 11011101 01000101 110101 11011111 111101 11111111 11111111 11110101 010101 01011001 011101 11110111 11010101 11110101 010111 11110111 111111 11011001 100101011 01011101 111001 0111011 111101 11110110 11111101 10011111 110001 11010101 010111 110101011 1111111 11001111 011111 0101011 110111 01001101 01111101 01111101 111111 11110101 111111 11010101 11110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, an', me, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', the are repeated.

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  • summary of The Invalid;
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