This is an analysis of the poem Dicky that begins with:
Mother
Oh, what a heavy sigh!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc d ac eded bcec fgXg chXX eXXi dhdh Xfaf fihX a dhghXeiei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 110101 101110 10 101010110 11010 010101 10110 1100101 011010 101101 01110 1111001 10110 111101 1111 1111110 1011 1111110 0111 1111110 11010 101101 11100 101101 0101 0101110 0011 010101110 0111 1100101 1101 011110 0111 011101 1111 101101 1001 10 1111110 1001 01011101 1111 1101001 11101 1101111 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dicky, i, his are repeated.
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- summary of Dicky;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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