This is an analysis of the poem Dr. Sam that begins with:
TO MISS GRACE KING
Down in the old French quarter,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcddcbeXeXfggF ehffhieXEbfaaf XjjjjceiEjfccF XccccbfjfXXXjjF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,14,14,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 1001110 110101 1111 1101 100101 1101110 110101 11011111 111101 0010010011 0100101 101001 00111 00100111 1101111 110101 1101 1101 110101 1101110 11111 01011101 010101 001011010 0101111 10101 00101 10100111 0101010 111101 1101 01001 010101 0101010 110101 1010110101 010101 1001010 100101 1101 0101 00100111 1111110 1101111 1111 1101 111101 1001010 100101 110011101 110101 01001110 0100111 01011101 10111 10101 00100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word moon at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Dr. Sam;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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