This is an analysis of the poem The Toy-Maker that begins with:
I AM the Toy-maker; I have brought from the town
As much in my plack as should fetch a whole crown,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab cccd eeed fffX gggh fXcX fffbXeeeh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111001 11011111011 10111111001 1101011 101101001101 01011011011 01001101101 110101110 11101011011 001001011011 01101001001 101011010 1111101101 01101001111 010011001001 1011011010 101101001101 101101011101 111011101001 1010011011 01101111001 110011110 01101011010 110011010 11011101011 101101101101 101101101101 111011111 11011001011 11011111111 11111011011 101011000
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, or, of, needn't, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Toy-Maker;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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