This is an analysis of the poem Mockery that begins with:
Why do we grudge our sweets so to the living
Who, God knows, find at best too much of gall,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110010 1111111101 110100101110 100111 11110111110 0101111101 11010111010 100111 11011101010 0101010100 11000101110 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 494
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
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- summary of Mockery;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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