This is an analysis of the poem No Use Sighin' that begins with:
No use frettin' when the rain comes down,
No use grievin' when the gray clouds frown,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddaacc eeffaa ggccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111 111010111 111010111 111010111 10110111 011110111 111011101 111001101 11110101 111101101 10110101 010110101 111010101 111011111 111010101 1011011111 10110111 001011101 1011010111 1110101101 1010110101 111110111 1010110111 00100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, when, use, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of No Use Sighin';
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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