This is an analysis of the poem The Dictaphone Bard that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bbbc abdd Xbbc bbbc bXbdXbbac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000100110111011011000010110111101011111100100001101010010 1110001001101000101000100 1010001010 1011101110 0111101010 1011101100 010010101010010 001010110 101010010 10101100101011010111 11101010101 101010110 1010111010 1010101001100 111101010 111000110 111110101110101010 1110101100 1010101010 111010110 10010010101010 101110101010111 1110101010 111010110 11101010 1011101100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, comma are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines comma is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word period at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Dictaphone Bard;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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