This is an analysis of the poem A Pig's-Eye View Of Literature that begins with:

The Lives and Times of John Keats,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, and...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX aabbbaCCa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111011 101101 11001110 1011011 001101001 01001011001 11101001001 11011001001 10100101001 010110 010110 01011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, of, byron, shelley are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines shelley is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase byron connects the lines.

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  • summary of A Pig's-Eye View Of Literature;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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