This is an analysis of the poem The Poor Man that begins with:
Today this poor man
Begs you once again,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba XXaX Xbcc XXXX XXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011 11101 111100 101001 01011 1111010 11001 10111 011010 101100 0101010 01001001 1101 001001011 110001011 010001 1011101011 1111 11011 10111 010011110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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- summary of The Poor Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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