This is an analysis of the poem A Suggestion that begins with:
As I go and shop, sir!
If a car I stop, sir! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaab ccdaad eefaafXaafaaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 001111 11101 111011 101111 11101 101010 001010 11111 111011 111111 11101 011110 111010 10111 1011111 111111 11101 001011 101001 11111 0110011 0101111 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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 author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sir is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sir is repeated).
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- summary of A Suggestion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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