This is an analysis of the poem Accident that begins with:
DEAR one!
you sit there ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXX cdXd efX fgee BdX BgcXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,3,4,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 111 00100010 111111 11101 0001010 0101010 101100110 11110 111111 110111011 11110 1101001111 1001111010 111111 10101 100101 01011001 01011 100101 0111 11110 00110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of Accident;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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