This is an analysis of the poem Comfort that begins with:
Say! You've struck a heap of trouble --
Bust in business, lost your wife;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababcbc dbdbXeee bfXfegeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1010111 11101011 1110111 11101011 1010111 11101111 10111 11101110 0010101 11101110 1110101 101010010 1110101 10111111 1111111 11111001 1111111 111011110 1111101 10101010 1011101 11101110 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; so, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words these, you've are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases you, sky, these connect the lines.
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- summary of Comfort;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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