This is an analysis of the poem Pessimistic Visits that begins with:
Is it...
Those pessimistic visits, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAXcc ABaXa DedDfbaABdAE ABAXed aBdEABd AFXaFabfaXdaCbcddbcdC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,12,6,7,21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00 1101010 010001 1000 101 0111001 100 1101010 0100010 0011111 111 001011 101110101 0010001 001011 100101001 101010 11010101 100 1101010 0101101101 100 0101101111 00 1101010 010001 101000 101011 11101 100 1101010 111010 0101101111 100 1101010 1101001101 00 1000011010 00101010101 111100 1000011010 00101010001 111110 101000101010 00101010001 101010001 1 111110101 1 1010001001 1 1101 1 01010001001 1 111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word find at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Pessimistic Visits;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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