This is an analysis of the poem Sob Stories that begins with:
I am not one to pass another,
On their knees....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcXbcccdc eacebXcffgg bgfaXe XbXfXdXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,11,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010 111 11101000 11101001 0111011 0111 11111001 110 10111111 01010 0001001 01010010 111110 10100010010100 11100 111111 11111 101100101 010111101 10010000100 11011100 01011 111101 101111101 100111 1000101000 11001001 10100 01101101111 10 10101 11101011 11110100 0101010 10100101 11101110010 001110110 1101001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word god is repeated.
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- summary of Sob Stories;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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