This is an analysis of the poem Passing Out that begins with:
The doctor fingers my bruise.
"Magnificent," he says, "black ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbacb bdebfe bgeage hijhij ahXXhX Xdaakk iXfiXl iafial eXXjcj giigiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011 1000001110 1010110 100101111 1001001 1111011 1110010 1101010 0101001 1101010 1110111 1010111 1001000 1101101 0110100 0110010 0111111 0111010 0001101 10001001 1111111 1110001 0101001 1101001 010011 1110001 1001001 1101011 0100100 0111010100 1111010 100010 0010110 1001001100 1111011 1100101 000101 1010010 0100011 0101001 11011101 0100100 1010011 1010100 111000001 110000111 1011111 0111110 0110001 0101010 101001010 1111101 0101011 1011101 1001010 1111111 1101001 00110111 1001001 101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Passing Out;
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- idea of the verse;
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