This is an analysis of the poem The Patient that begins with:
The patient looks outs into the garden burning
With Christmas* stars of vermillion fire....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbX XXcd XeXX baeX XaaXXecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110001010 0101001010 1101110111010 11011001001 1001101000111 1000110100101 11101011 11111111 10111111 11011110 01000101011 101001101 1010101010 00101110 00100010101 1010010100 111001010 01011010110 00011010001 001001101 0101101101 101001010 001010101011 110010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; he, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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- summary of The Patient;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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