This is an analysis of the poem The Morning Visit that begins with:
A sick man's chamber, though it often boast
The grateful presence of a literal toast,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacc ddeeff ccgg hXiieeffcceXcccXffaaddhhdXffjjffddjX ddaakkffddll mmnnddnnmmXgaaXaddaaaahhoo ccffffkkdX hhppXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,4,36,12,26,10,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111010101 01010001001 11010101001 0101000101 1101000101 1011010011 1101010101 1001011101 0101011101 0011001111 1101110101 1111011101 1111010011 01010100111 10011001101 0111110111 1111010111 0111110101 11111100101 010001010 1101010101 11011101001 1101010101 1111001101 1101010101 1011011111 1101110101 11010101 11011101001 1001100100 1111000111 1101010101 1101010101 10101100010 1111010101 0101001111 1011010101 1011111111 1101010101 1010010101 1111010101 0101001101 01010100111 100110101 0101001111 1111000101 1001010101 1101010101 11110010101 1101110111 0101110101 11010000101 1011010001 0111010101 01011100101 01010100101 01010100101 1001000101 1101010101 0101010111 1011010111 1011010101 10100011111 11010011101 11110000111 11010000101 1101010101 1001000101 1101010101 1011011101 1101011111 1111010101 0111011101 1111011101 11110001001 1101110001 1011111100 0111011101 1101001101 1111011101 00110110100 1111000101 10010101010 11010110101 0111000101 1001010101 11010010111 0101110101 1011010101 0111010101 1101010001 1101011101 1111010101 1011000101 1111011101 1111010101 11110100111 1111011101 1011010001 1011010101 1101000101 01010101000 1001010101 11011001001 1101110101 01001000101 0111111110 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 592
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, you, to, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
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- summary of The Morning Visit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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