This is an analysis of the poem A Sore Point that begins with:
It was clear that poor Richard was out of the running,
His mortification he could not disguise. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc adadee fgfgcc XhXhcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111110110010 01000011101 110010010010 11001111001 01000111001 101101111101 110011010010 01001111001 110010010010 01011001001 11001011001 111001001001 011011011010 01001011011 011010010010 010110101001 1110010010001 001001101001 11110111110100 11001101001 1110010010110 11001101001 01011011001 01101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, her are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word train at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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