This is an analysis of the poem Mortgaged that begins with:
These spotted trousers, now too short,
Were once some verses smoothly wrought, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeeffggeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 01110101 01110111 11001101 01010111 01001101 01011101 11110001 11110001 01110101 01011111 1101001 01010101 11011110 11111101 11010101 11010101 11110101 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 655
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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.
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- summary of Mortgaged;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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