This is an analysis of the poem Our Town's Comforter that begins with:
IT touches the heart of “Our Mother”
with happiness queerly regretful... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcde bfd fg ggcgh g Xigi cifi j gXkaX ak jjf ifjgi djhfeXjcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,2,5,1,4,4,1,5,2,3,5,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010110 010010010 0111110100 1011011 110110110 111010010 010011010 0111001 110110010 010011010 110010110 01011001 110110110 010111010 110010110 01001001 111110010 011110010 010010010 11101001 110110110 010010110 110110010 11001001 11011110 100011010 110111010 11101001 1110010110 110010000 011011110 11000101 110010010 010111010 111111110 01101011 1110100110 110110110 1110111010 01111101 111011001 0110110110 01001011 101011001 1010010010 111010010 111011110 11011010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.
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- summary of Our Town's Comforter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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