This is an analysis of the poem The Punisher that begins with:
I have fetched the tears up out of the little wells,
Scooped them up with small, iron words,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bab cac dXd XXX ede fXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111011100101 10101101 1010010 01110111111 110110101001 1011 1010111101 1000101011011 1001 01111011111 01011001010111 1101 0100101010010010 1001110111111 1110010 010110011101 01110110110010 11101 10101011111111 01011111001000 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Punisher;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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