This is an analysis of the poem My Dentist that begins with:
Sitting in the dentist's chair,
Wishing that I wasn't there,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccccdcdc eXecfgfX hihiabab gcgcffffXaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101 1011101 0011101 1110101 11010111 110101 11010111 110111 111010110 110100 111111110 111001 11100101 11010010 11010101 110101 11111101 1110101 11111001 1101110 01110101 010101 11010101 100111 11010111 010101 11010101 001101 11010100 110101 110101001 111101 01111111 011111 11110011 111001 1000101 1111101 1110101 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; he, i, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, he are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bill at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of My Dentist;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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