This is an analysis of the poem A Street Fight that begins with:
SIR, we approve your curling lip and nose
At this vile sight.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110111 1011 1111011111 111111 1011011111 1101 110010100001 010011 1101010111 11010 1111111111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 417
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of A Street Fight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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