This is an analysis of the poem Obesity that begins with:
With belly like a poisoned pup
Said I: 'I must give bacon up:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXX ddeeffXX XXgghhXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11111101 110110001 11010111 11110011 10010001 110101001 010100 11010111 11111111 01110011 01011111 11100101 11110101 10010111 10111 111101000 11010101 01000101 01010001 11000101 11111101 01110101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Obesity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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