This is an analysis of the poem In Time Of Sickness that begins with:
Lost Youth, come back again!
Laugh at weariness and pain.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1110011 11011101 11 110101 111111 011101 11 111111 0011111 0010101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; come is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is is repeated.
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- summary of In Time Of Sickness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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