This is an analysis of the poem The Surgeon's Warning that begins with:
The Doctor whispered to the Nurse
And the Surgeon knew what he said,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb bbDb Defe ghij kkck lmmm Xnfn Xhmh lfbf gioi bXXL ikik iidI phkh iiki ailI aono bgXg blhL iXik iidI ghlh pikI lLXL Xbmb DCNC lLmL lmlm eklk DCNC llhL albl hnbn lfmf clkl kdpd mljl fdhd lbbb bnfn ecbcXnici
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010001 10101111 111110101 1100011 11111011001 0101001 010101010 101011101 010101010 11001010 1010100111 1111110110 0100111001 111111 00111100 100100 0101111001 1100101 111100010 1111101 11010100111 11100111 1101101111 1111111 11110100 010111 1110100101 1101001 1101001111 1010110 11011101 111101 111100101 0101011 111011111 11100101 1110010101 111101 1111100111 11011011 101011111 110110 11010111 10101001 1100100101 11110101 110001010 111111 011011001010 1110001 1010101010010 1111101 110101101 110100 11011011 1111001 11111111 010101 011101001 1010101 10111101 011011 11110011 010101 11011111 110101 11111111 0101011 010111001 011101 1101101001 0101001 111011111 110111 11010101 10101001 110100101 1010010110 1110001010 111111 101011001010 111011101 1010101010010 1111101 001011101 110110 11011111 010001 11100101 011011 111110111 010101 10111101 1011111 0100101010 110101 1101101101 11100101 111110101 00101101 1111101010 1101111 11011111 1111001 01011101 1011111 1100111001 110101 01001101011 1111011 11101011001 1111101 11101111011 1111111 11010111 110101 1111101010 1101111 11011111 1111001 01111101 101111 110111001 110101 11010101 010111 101010101 110101 111100101 110111 1111101001 1110101 11011111 100101 11111011 011111 111111011 110111 111111101 110111 11010011 110010010 01010101 0111010 101101101 0101011 11011100 101101 11011001 11101010 1100010111 11001010 11010101 111101 1110111101 01111101 110101001 1110101 11111101 010001 01011101 111111 101010101 110100 1110010101 1111101 110100101 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 42
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 168
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, by, he, of, have, i, his, it, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, so are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and, they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Surgeon's Warning;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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