This is an analysis of the poem The Reporter that begins with:
Two friends were sitting at a table drinking tea.
A sudden hubbub arose in the street. They heard pitiable groans, furious...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XX XX aX X XX X XXX X XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,2,1,3,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010101 01010010011110001100 011001010 1101100110011010 10 1100010001001011110110 110100101000111101 1010100110 1010000011011100111 1101001 110110 101001010011011010110 11001011001000100100010 01010111111 100110010110 101011111110110011 1
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, ', it, thief are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Reporter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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