This is an analysis of the poem Besieged With Sickness that begins with:
Besieged with sickness,
Are those who thirst with a doing to others......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcdeaXa aaefXd bbddXXbdX GFHHACH ACHGAH GFHHACHXACHGAH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,9,7,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010 11110010010 10101 101001001 111101000110 10101 01000100 110010011111 10100001000101 010101 1110101010101 10111001011001 01010100010 100101110001 1010111010 11010111 11100010 0011100001 11010101101 01010100 001001011110100 010110101 110011000 101011 00101101 00101 001 01010 100 110101 01010 100 110101 101011 10100 010101101 101011 00101101 00101 001 01010 100 110101 01010 100 110101 101011 10100 010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of Besieged With Sickness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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