This is an analysis of the poem Not A Sight For The Weak that begins with:
An obsession that has addicted...
With traditions held thick, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeddfgd daaddhi XXjfjji Xkaf addXde jijijdkaXigaj iadjdcdi daadhb dbdd ejeibiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,7,7,4,6,13,8,6,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011010 001011 00101100111 1000110101 101001000111 00111 110101 101001010 00100 1110100001 01111010 0011101 100100101 1101010001 11100101 1011101 110110111 101010101100 1001 01100101 10010111011001 010101 00101 101110 100100001110 110101011001 10011110 011010001010010 10101011010 00101010010111 0100111001 01 0101111 010110110 101110111001 0011100100 0111 101111101 11 01010110 100100101 1001111010 1100111011000 111101 110110 110101 000100101 1001 110010 010110010 111101 1010010 0111 0111110 0100011101 111011111 101001 0001001111 111101010 0010100101 0101101 1110011110 1111010101111 0011101010001 1101010001011111 10101000101011010 1011100010001 01100111010 11011001010 101101110111 0 00010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, suffer, in, those are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Not A Sight For The Weak;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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