This is an analysis of the poem Losing Patience that begins with:
If one is the owner,
Of another's debt....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaabbcdb aadXadbdbebce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010 00101 111011 100111110 1 101010 01111101 10010001010 101100 101001 01001000101 110011010101 101011100 1000010 010100111 1111101000 0011101 11100100 00101111001 1110010101 1010010010010 1111100101 1111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 385
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; one is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Losing Patience;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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