This is an analysis of the poem A Suggestion that begins with:

IF you've grumbled through the day
Without driving care away, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbbbcB ddXXeecB bXcXbbXB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110101 0110101 00101110 10111110 00100110 11101110 11111010 1110 01100110 11101110 01101010 11101110 01101010 10101010 11111010 1110 01101010 11101100 01111110 10010100 01111010 10100110 11111011 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.

    The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

    The poet repeated the same word smiling at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of A Suggestion;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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