This is an analysis of the poem Looking For Work that begins with:
Consider the pigeons of the city,
how in their filthy swoop and dive they fatten...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacadefg bXcfgXbecbaa heXbbgXhb dbiibX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,9,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100100010 10110111110 1101001 01011010 1101001110 11111001111 100101001 011001100 011100010 0011 010010111100 0101001001110 1110110 1100111 010001011011 01011111 100001001100 1111011001 010111110 101011011 010101 11110010 0101101 10101101 1101110 10010110 1011011 11011111 0101110101 1001101101 00101000101 01010 10011011010 01111110010111 1101101 11111110101 110111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
The author used the same word consider at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Looking For Work;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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