This is an analysis of the poem Pity Makes Those Visits that begins with:
Everyday you have to pray,
If you want a life to be lived right....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABa ABB ccdd XeXfdbX ABa ABB dFBEf dF BEd dD XbdDXbdF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,7,3,3,5,2,3,2,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 011010011 101 110111010001 011111 0101011 110111010 01100110 0111101 0110101 11110101 1111101 11010111 11110101 0101010011 1111 101 1011101 011010011 101 110111010001 011111 0101011 1101110011 101 11110101 1101 111101 1101110011 101 11110101 1101 011111 1101110011 0101101 1101110 11101 011 0101101 10111011101 10011 101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; everyday, to, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words without, and are repeated.
The author used the same words you, and, as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mind 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 Pity Makes Those Visits;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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