This is an analysis of the poem ‘erbert's H'Opinion that begins with:
H'if a yankee cutthroat ‘acks ‘is poor hold mother,
H'it tykes a year to pack ‘im h'off to jyle;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbX dXdXacaX beXedcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101011101110 11001011101 111011110110 0111010101 111010111010 00111010101 1110010100010 1111110101 101010101010 1111010111 010111010010 1101011001 111010101010 111101001 10110101110 1111110101 111110101110 11111010011 1101110101 1111010101 111011111110 11111111001 1110101110010 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, in, you are repeated.
The author used the same word h'if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ome at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of ‘erbert's H'Opinion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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