This is an analysis of the poem The Fly In The Ointment that begins with:
When the great Creator fashion'd us, and saw that we were good,
He commission'd us to dominate the planet as it stood. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb bbbX XXdd eeff ccXa XXgg X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101111100 101010101010101 1010010101110101 101011011010101 1011101101001001 111110101010011 111010101010110 111110100010011 101010111010101 1110011100110001 101010101110101 111010101100000 00110100011111 10101110110100 11001100110101 111110101111100 101010101010101 111011101010101 101010111011101 111010101111111 111010101111101 101110100010101 1110111110111110 111010100010101 101011101010111 1011111010101010 1010011010101001 1010010101010101 10011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; us, we, of, o, let are repeated.
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- summary of The Fly In The Ointment;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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