This is an analysis of the poem The Gentle Hint that begins with:
The old man sat upon his swag his eyes were red and bleared.
I doubt he’d had a wash for days or even combed his beard....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa aabb ccdd eXcc ccff ffaa gghhXaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011101010101110 11110111110101 110111101110101 11111111111111 11011111010101 01011101110111 11001101110101 11110101111101 01110101011101 111011101110001 11110101111101 01010110010011 11110110011101 1010111110101 110111110111101 11011011111101 11010111110101 1111111001110111 111011111110111 111111111110101 11000101110101 11111111110101 1110111111111 11011001010001 11110111110111 11111101101111 11010001110101 11110111111101 11011100111011 1101011111101 1111101110111 11111111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he, and, i, me, t are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some 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.
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- summary of The Gentle Hint;
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