This is an analysis of the poem The Tramp that begins with:
Eagerly he took my dime,
Then shuffled on his way,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb cdcdd ababb efeff ababb ghghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111 110101 1011111 1110111 1011101 1010111 1100101 1011101 1011111 1010101 1000111 1011111 1011011 1110001 1011100 1010101 1010111 11001001 1111111 1010111 1111101 1110101 1110111 1010101 1110101 1110101 0011101 1110111 1110101 0111100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; not is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
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- summary of The Tramp;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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