This is an analysis of the poem Dippold The Optician that begins with:
What do you see now?
Globes of red, yellow, purple. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacacDeafadDbcfagaXgXcXaXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 1011010 101011 110110110 111 11110010110 10 0101010 10011 011001010100 0100111 10100111101 10 10101010 111101 11101111001100 11 11010101 11011 01 10111 11111100101 101 101 10011 11110101010011 101110100100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 770
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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- summary of Dippold The Optician;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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