This is an analysis of the poem Pain Did Not Become Grateful To Medicine that begins with:

Pain did not become grateful to medicine
I didn't get well; [but it] wasn't bad either...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab XX Xc Xb dc Xa aX Xc ccdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101100100 110111010110 111100010 0110110011110111 11110111100 111001111001 111111010 100100101110 1011011010 1001001111011 10010001010 10110111100110 11101011001 01010010100110111 0011101011 1011101010111 001110010011 10100101111001 0110110110 01100011010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; heart is repeated.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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