This is an analysis of the poem Sid Hamet’s Rod that begins with:
Poor Hall, renown'd for comely hair,
Whose hands, perhaps, were not so fair,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbcXbbccccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11011101 11010111 11010011 101101010 1100100010 11110011 0100010110 1111110 010101010 01001101 01010001 11010101 00111101 11010111 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 529
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to is repeated.
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- summary of Sid Hamet’s Rod;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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