This is an analysis of the poem A Serious Grievance that begins with:
I have a serious grievance to settle
with the Mother of the Universe....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbccXaXX aXdefXaXebbe fdXbfcX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,12,7,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010010 001000101 101010001 0111101010 0101110 011110 1101010010 100110100111 10110001 10110010 11001001 111100100 110111011101 10111001010101 1101101001001 1110010111 101111110101 101100001010 11100011101 1010011101 11110100 11100100 1101111101 010101010 101000100101001 100010100100000 11010010 1010101010 1101 0101101 0101110010001000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, you are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Serious Grievance;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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