This is an analysis of the poem Giffen's Debt that begins with:
Imprimis he was "broke." Thereafter left
His Regiment and, later, took to drink;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXceXfXbCe fbdgacXcaehdbbi efdXcdfedheccadXidccdgdcace adchidjiCjcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,15,27,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110000101 0100110101 1101010001 101001010001 1111001111 1101010100 1111010111 11010101110 1101011101 100100010100 1101110111 0101000111 0101111100 1111010001 11001101011 1101010011 1101010111 1111010101 11001010101 010100010100 1111110100 1001110100 0111010111 1111011111 11101010111 1101000101 11000011101 1101111100 1001000101 0101100111 0101010001 0101010101 1011110100 0011010001 1101000101 1100010101 1011000101 1001010101 1100011111 1001000100 1101010100 01010100101 11010100101 1100011111 0100010101 1100010101 1101000111 1100011100 1101010101 1001010001 1101010101 1101000101 1101011111 1101011101 111101010010 10011011101 1101000101 11110010001 0101010101 1100011101 1101000101 0101110100 11010001000 0101000111 0101000100 0101010100 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 695
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Giffen's Debt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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