This is an analysis of the poem Loafing that begins with:
Under the shade of trees,
Flat on my back at ease,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccbdddedddefffghhhgeeecXiic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 111111 110101 1111 100101 100101 100101 1011 110101 100101 111101 1111 100101 101111 100101 1001 110111 100101 011101 1111 101111 101101 101101 1111 111111 100111 100101 1101 011110 010101 100011 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 776
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
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- summary of Loafing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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