This is an analysis of the poem The Little Fat Doctor that begins with:
He seemed so strange to me, every way--
In manner, and form, and size,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb caca dcdc XeXe XXXX abaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011001 0101111 001111101 11100111 01011101 1100101 110101111 0111100 110101111 1011101 111010101 1110101 11010100 010111 0101101101 00100101 111111110 11001011 110101101 111101 10101111101 0100111 01111111 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to, i, and, how are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Little Fat Doctor;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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