This is an analysis of the poem Their Bodies that begins with:
To the students of anatomy
at Indiana University...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XbccdXccX dbXcXeXaXccea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,9,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001000100 1101010100 1111110111 1110101011011 1010101101001 10100110111001 1010010100 001110010101 101100111101 11110111111 011111110100 101010100101 11001001110 1111111101 1101010111 1010101001011 11010100111 11110000110 1011101010110 110101011010 010111111 0101011101110 111101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of, on, his, she, and, as are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Their Bodies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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