This is an analysis of the poem The Cut Finger that begins with:
THE GOSSOON [Weeping]
It’s bleedin’! It’s bleedin’!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X b XcXX XXc a X X XdXdXXd a X b XcXcXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,4,3,1,1,1,7,1,1,1,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010 010010 0110100 11111010 11110101011111 011101010110010 1010111011101100 11111110 10101010 11101110111111 01010 010010 01101000 11111010 11110101101111 0101101011101100 11011101111101 110111110 11011010 101010111111111 01010 010010 0110100 11111010 11111101110111 0110010110101010 101011101110101 111111010 1111101 11011101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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; bleedin, ye, t are repeated.
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- summary of The Cut Finger;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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