This is an analysis of the poem Chums that begins with:
HUSBAND and wife for fourteen years!
And just like children now,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXaca deeeafgX beeeefef dcaXgaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111110 111101 11010101 011111 11111101 111011 11100111 110101 10111111 110111 01010111 010101 11111101 110001 11011101 1100010 11001111 111111 01011101 111111 01011110 011111 11111101 010101 01110101 110111 110011101 11101110 11110111 011101 111010101 1001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; through is repeated.
The author used the same word husband at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Chums;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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