This is an analysis of the poem A Chicot that begins with:
IN days of ancient history
Who were you? Tell me if you know. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XaXX babX caXX dadX cacX eaeX fafX fafX dadX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010100 10111011 01110101 0110 01011100 10100110 10110100 0110 01010101 10010011 10110010 0110 01010100 11010001 11000011 1010 11110101 00111111 01101100 1110 10100101 11011101 11111100 1010 11110101 11110101 11010101 0110 11111101 111101001 11011111 1110 10011100 11010101 11011111 0110 11010111 11011111 11110111 1110 11010101 01010111 01000101 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word are is repeated.
The author used the same word were at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word chicot at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of A Chicot;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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