This is an analysis of the poem Infirmities that begins with:
Because my teeth are feebly few
I cannot bolt my grub like you,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccXddXebbbe cccfeeef gggdcccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 11011111 11011111 1111 110011110 11110011 11110111 0100 01110101 11110101 11010110 0101 01110101 11011101 11010011 1111 011101010 111101010 110101010 1011 11100111 11010101 11000101 1101 01110101 11010111 10010101 1101 11010101 10010011 10110111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; chew, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word because at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Infirmities;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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