This is an analysis of the poem Sensibility that begins with:
I
Once, when a boy, I killed a cat....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeeffbbfffcc X ggbbhhee ffiiaaXjjbb X hheekkffbbeebbbbkkeeXaajj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,17,1,8,11,1,25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011101 11010101 01011100 11110101 10011001 01111101 11000111 11110101 11010101 01010001 11000101 01010001 01010101 1010001 11110001 010010001 10011100 1 11010111 01111100 01110111 11010101 01010100 110111001 11111101 01000101 11110111 11010101 110011101 111100001 110100101 11101101 01111100 11011111 11011001 01110101 11011011 1 110111011 01010101 10011111 11111101 11010111 11110111 11110011 01010101 10111101 11010101 11111101 11010101 01110111 11000101 11010111 01000101 10111101 11111101 11110001 01110111 11011101 11110111 10110101 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; i, and, to, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Sensibility;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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