This is an analysis of the poem Tranquillity that begins with:
Oh if it were not for my wife
And family increase,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefcgcg chchfifi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001111 110001 11011111 010101 01110111 1101001 110100111 1101 11110111 010111 01110101 010001 11111111 110111 11000101 1111 11100101 111101 11110101 110101 100111110 010101 110001010 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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- summary of Tranquillity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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