This is an analysis of the poem Sitting Seeking Pity that begins with:
Never will these wounds known that I carry,
Affect you directly....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbbabcd efffbd ggabhb icccjjchj aekaXkbi AAfljbl fhhiiXbcXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,9,8,7,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111110 011010 1111110101 101001011010 0001010 101011101110 1011111010 101010100011 1011 01111001011 1011110111101 0101111 1110110010 1111111 1110111 111010100101 1001011111100 100111101111 10111010101 1100111111 101110100001 1001011110 10110111 1110111110111 1101 1110010100 00101110 1101111 11010101010 1110111111100 1110101111 111111 101010 011111 011101 1111010 0010111 1001111110 011010 11101011110 11101010101011 1110100100 1110010101110 11001110101 1010 1111100101001 1001100111111001 111001110100 10101110101 1111101 1111111 110101100 1101101 11011 101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, of, to, your, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Sitting Seeking Pity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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