This is an analysis of the poem Oh, It Is Good that begins with:
Oh, it is good to drink and sup,
And then beside the kindly fire...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece fgfg hchc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10000111 110101010 01110101 111101010 10000111 01011111 01010001 01000101 10000111 01010101 11010111 01010011 10000101 11010011 11100101 01010101 11001111 110101110 11111111 110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Oh, It Is Good;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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