This is an analysis of the poem Sickness that begins with:
THE toughest carcass in the town
Fell sick at last and took to bed,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXbXX badaXabX XaXa XXba daXaaada bebXceXe adaXddbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,4,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010001 11111101 11111101 011110101 11010001 11100111 11111100 01010110 10110111 111110100 11111101 11111011 11010101 1100100101 11010111 11110111 11111111 10010101 011101001 11110111 11110001 10110110 01110111 11010101 010100101 01011011 01110101 11010111 11111101 101110011 01010111 11010111 011100101 11010101 11110111 11011111 11110101 11111101 010100100 01110101 11011101 11100111 11010111 11111100 110100101 01110001 110100001 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Sickness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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