This is an analysis of the poem Tonsils that begins with:
One day the doctor came because my throat was feeling awful sore,
And when he looked inside to see he said: 'It's like it was before;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbXcX ddXX eeff ggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010111110101 1111010111110101 0100010111010101 0101110111010110 1111110111111111 1110011101110111 11111111111111 11 0101011101001101 1111110111110111 1111010111111001 1111101101000110 1111111111010101 1101111111011101 0101010111110111 1111010111110101 1111011111011101 1111111111111011 0111010111011111 1111110111111101 1111110111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, that, and, an', me, i, said, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Tonsils;
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