This is an analysis of the poem Too Patient that begins with:
When I began to weed through,
My priority list......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBB cbbbde ABBb bXaX ABBfXbf Xgddghebhcg gc dABBB XXbehg bXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,4,7,11,2,5,6,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 101001 111110 111001 11110 110101101 11011010 10110101111 11101 1110111 1101011 101001 111110 11111101 1011101001 1111010 1011 010111110 1101011 101001 111110 110101 1111110 0111 01100 11011001101 001111 110111101 10101011 1100111100010 111111001 10010 111 1100010001011 101111011 011010101101 110101101 1101001 01 1101011 101001 111110 111001 1100111 001110 1100 0111 11111101 0101 1010110 10110111 1110111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 52
- 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:
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; on, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, did are repeated.
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- summary of Too Patient;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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