This is an analysis of the poem The Miser that begins with:
Withered and gray as winter; gnarled and old,
With bony hands he crouches by the coals;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011110111 0101110101 0101011101 1101100111 0111011101 1101011101 0111011101 1111010001 1111111111 1011110101 01111110101 11011110111 1011011011 1001111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 660
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, nor are repeated.
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- summary of The Miser;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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