This is an analysis of the poem Frozen Stiff that begins with:
When you have spent most of your life,
Donating time in devotion to others....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddbc ef cdbXaed dfde X bXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,7,4,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011 11010010010 111101 0010101 0101010001 1001001110 1111 11101111 110100010 11010101110 110011 101010 01101001010 10001110101 0100100010010 0101111011 1111110 1101101010 001000101 10111001010 111101 11 110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Frozen Stiff;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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