This is an analysis of the poem Help that begins with:
The Passionate Householder to his Love
Come, live with us and be our cook,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Bbaa ccdd eeff bbgg ffBB eeee hhBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100110001 11011011 11010101 11010111 11010101 11110101 11111101 11111111 01001001 11010101 11110101 010001110 1101001110 11100111 11010101 11010111 11111111 11110101 11010101 00011101 11011011 11011111 11010101 11011001 11011111 110101010 101101010 00011101 11011011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, your are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Help;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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