This is an analysis of the poem Old Tickler that begins with:
Go East or West, go North or south, by land sea or air,
But before you go, make sure the old Tickler isn’t there....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb Xcdd Xcaa eeffgghh X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,8,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111111111 1011111011011 10001011111110 111101010111010 01011111100100 1111010101010 0100110111111 11110111011101 1111010110110 11011101111001 11101001011101 11010101010101 1111110011111010 1101010111110010 0111110001111010 011100010101010 01111101010101 11111111110101 10111010111101 111101011111011 010010001001001011001010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, go, or, he, they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of Old Tickler;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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