This is an analysis of the poem The Whiners that begins with:
I don't mind the man with a red blooded kick
At a real or a fancied wrong;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXD ececfdfD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001101 10110101 111101001011 01011101 111101011111 101111001 11101001001 11101001 111001001011 101001101 111001011001 101011001 11011011011 111001001 11101001001 11101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; with, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word whine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Whiners;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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