This is an analysis of the poem When The Eyes Stay Fixed Upon It that begins with:
Those sick in health,
And always with something negative to say, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcXa bbaXcXb bcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 11101010001 01111 010010010100 11011011011 1101110111111 000101001001110 00010010 1001 000100100100 001010 0110 10011011010 10111010 111 01 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; it is repeated.
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- summary of When The Eyes Stay Fixed Upon It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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