This is an analysis of the poem In The Deep Museum that begins with:

My God, my God, what queer corner am I in?
Didn't I die, blood running down the post, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdececfdfdgcgcbhbhdhdhididgigi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11111110110 1011110101 1101111101 0100110110101 10110011011 1111011100 111110111 11111011100 1101111111 1101111111 0001111101 1011011101111 11111011001 011011010101 10100101111 001000110001 10100100111 0011110110101 011101010011 1111111011 1011001010001 0111111001 1001110111 110111001011 1110111011 101010101011 11110101111 11111111 1101011101 01100101001 10010100111 01011001001 0010111001011 01101110011 1010110101 111010010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1644
  • Average number of words per stanza: 331
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, as, it, under are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, of are repeated.

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  • summary of In The Deep Museum;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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