This is an analysis of the poem Contentment that begins with:
An Ancient gaffer once I knew,
Who puffed a pipe and tossed a tankard; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbc dcdcebeb fgfgbhbh Xgbgbgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 110111010 11010011 1101011100 11011111 110101010 11110010 011111110 110011111 111111010 11111111 110101010 10011001 111101011 11111111 010101011 11110101 010101010 01010101 110111010 11111111 110111010 11001111 010101010 01000100 111101010 01010110 110100110 11010101 110111010 110101011 010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, s, it, or, and, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Contentment;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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