This is an analysis of the poem At A Reading that begins with:
The spare professor, grave and bald,
Began his paper. It was called, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccdXeebfddgghhiigghhjjggaaddeeffffkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 01010011 111010101 1101001100 01101101 111110111 01010101 11011111 11010001 01010100 100110001 01010101 11011111 11011111 00010101 11100101 10011111 100001011 11010111 100101001 10011101 110100101 11010001 00110111 11110101 01001111 01010101 10110101 11111111 11010111 11011111 110100101 11011101 11010011 01011101 00010111 01010111 1101101 01010101 10100101 01100011 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1484
- Average number of words per stanza: 251
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; so is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of At A Reading;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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