This is an analysis of the poem Going To School In Bed that begins with:
If it is impossible to promise
absolute fidelity,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCbbD ABCbbD ABCbbd ccXd XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0000100010 1010100 0001 11110100 00100110 1010 0000100010 1010100 0001 1111100 00100110 1010 0000100010 1010100 0001 11110100 00100110 0010 1111010 101010010 100110 1101010 001010101 111010 10 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what 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.
The poet repeated the same word another at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Going To School In Bed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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