This is an analysis of the poem Until An Affliction Comes that begins with:
Recovering from a dose of reality,
For those who have never dealt with it before......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabX ccbXX aXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 010000100100 11111010001 010110 111011000100 11001110100101 00010011 01010111 1111010101010 110001 1011010 11111101010 101010001111 0110101010 01011110111 010010100010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Until An Affliction Comes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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