This is an analysis of the poem The Doctor Will Return that begins with:
The surgical mask, the rubber teat
Are singed, give off an evil smell....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacb dedce fafca eXecb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010010101 11111101 11011111 110111 01110101 0101010101 11011101 1101110101 0101010101 01110101 11110011001 1101010101 11110011 1101010101 01110101 1110111110011 11010101 1001110101 1111110001 11011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Doctor Will Return;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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