This is an analysis of the poem Common Cold that begins with:
Go hang yourself, you old M.D.!
You shall not sneer at me. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbcc aaddeebb ffggddhX ddhhiiXX XXbbXXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 111111 11111101 11110101 110101100 011011110 10111001 110000101 11011101 11011101 11110101 11110101 1101111 110010100 01110111 0010011101 111101010 1001001010 01011001 00110101 01010101 01010111 0101010100 010010000 100101110 110101110 1111001110 010101010 01001111 010101101 110101110 110101110 01011010 1111011011 11101010 111111010 0101001010 11101001010 1100101001 10110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; by, cold are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, the are repeated.
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- summary of Common Cold;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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