This is an analysis of the poem The Baffled Grumbler that begins with:
Whene'er I poke
Sarcastic joke... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccdeedDDCC eefggfeedeXXDDCC hhiiiieebggXeecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011 0101 0101010 0101 0101 1111010 1101 1111 1101010 1101 1101 0111010 11011111 111111011 100110101 0101100101 1101 0101 1100100 1101 1111 1111010 0101 1111 0100010 1101 0101 0110000 11011111 111111011 100110101 0101100101 1101 0101 0111011 1111 0101 0101111 1101 1101 0101010 1111 1001 10001000 01110101 110111111 111011111 11101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word at at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Baffled Grumbler;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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