This is an analysis of the poem The Debt that begins with:
This is the debt I pay
Just for one riotous day,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000111 1111001 000111 100101 1010001 010111 110101 110101 110111 110111 110111 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Debt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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