This is an analysis of the poem Charity Case that begins with:
Don't look upon me as 'your' charity case.
To make donations, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACDbXebb ABACDBfBcf EGfaGH EGfaGH gAI GAGA GAI GAGAXGAIGAGa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,6,6,3,4,3,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111001 01010 1011000111010 10111001101 01100101 101011010 101110011 0111011010 10101110110100 10010011011101 11011111001 01010 1011000111010 10111001101 01100101 011100 111101 011100 11001101 011100111010 0100100 011 10 1 01011 101001001 0100100 011 10 1 01011 101001001 001 11011001 00100100111 01 11011001 01 1111 0101 11011001 00100100111 01 11011001 01 1111 0101 11011001 00100100111 0101 1111 0101 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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, you, my are repeated.
The author used the same words don't, this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dupe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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