This is an analysis of the poem Sympathy that begins with:
If I were only a little puppy, not your baby, mother dear, would
you say "No" to me if I tried to eat from your dish?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbXaXbXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101011101011 111000101101011 1111110011001110 10100 111011010101111 11101111101 0101001011011110 10111111111101 1111101111101010 100100101011110 0110110101000110 10111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 688
- Average number of words per stanza: 133
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, me, you, i are repeated.
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- summary of Sympathy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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