This is an analysis of the poem Little Exercise that begins with:
For Thomas Edwards Wanning
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXa bab cdb bcb cXc bbX dXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 100110010100 10110101010 100010 1111110111 101110100010 01110100 10100001010101 110101101010 10010101 100101101011 110110001 110011100 001010101 1010110101001 101001010010 101101010010 01101101 10100010010 10111000100011 100111101001 10110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of Little Exercise;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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