This is an analysis of the poem The Beggar that begins with:
A beggar through the world am I,
From place to place I wander by.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab cXaddda eeeacca fffeeef Xegaaag hheffeefXeebffa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 01011101 11110111 11111100 01001110 100101000 1111 10111111 11110011 11110101 11110100 10110101 01011111 110111001 111111 010010101 10110101 111101 101100001 10110101 100101 11111111 11100101 10001101 110101 01001100 01100110 111101 11110101 1100010010 11011101 010101 11010110 01110001 11110111 101111001 11011101 01011111 01111111 11110110 101111101 01011100 101100 11011101 10010110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
The author used the same words a, some at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Beggar;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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