This is an analysis of the poem The Pilgrim that begins with:
I FASTED for some forty days on bread and buttermilk,
For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or silk,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbC ddbbC aabbceebbCffbbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011101111101 1101010010111 01011101111101 1100010111111 01010101 1111010110101 1111010011101 1111111111111 111101110111 11010101 111101001011111 11110101111101 0101001010111101 11011100111101 11010101 01110101111001 11010101101101 0101010010101 11101010110101 11010101 11100101110101 11011101011101 110110101111 11110111111101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 426
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, i, that, in, come, and, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word o at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Pilgrim;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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