This is an analysis of the poem The Mountebank Criticizes that begins with:
I lose all sense of profiles,
Strolling through your greys and blacks and browns!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXaXcdbaXcXXXXXXbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 101111111 11010101 100011100010 01011101 1101010 0010100 1110101101 11010010101 111100110 1111110111 11011101 101010001 11011111 11001001 10000110111 1010011010 1010011 111010 11010111 1100110010 1101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 792
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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- summary of The Mountebank Criticizes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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