This is an analysis of the poem I Am No Doctor that begins with:
You want the truth but dispute it.
What is it that you really wish? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX aabXX XXX aX XX X bXab X ccXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,3,2,2,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010 10011101 100110111 10101111 11001101 00100100 0010111010 11 1111001 1101001101 101 111111101 110 1110111 10 110011010 001001010 1111100010101 11110101101 111111011 11 1110101 01011001010 1100101000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
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- summary of I Am No Doctor;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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