This is an analysis of the poem Sympathy that begins with:
She's rubbing his shoulder
and he's reading about...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd ef cagahaai Xe fjibk jlk hl fbdXl hgi Xg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,8,2,5,3,2,5,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010 111001 101101 0110111 0010010111 010011101 1101011 010010 11101 0100010 01011010 1011100 111110 01110 010101010 1011111 11110101 11 111101010 111000 1 1110101011 010100 101 1101010 01 01101 01101010 01 11011 111 110010101101 110101101 1110 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase again connects the lines.
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- summary of Sympathy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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