This is an analysis of the poem The New Poetry Handbook that begins with:
1 If a man understands a poem,
he shall have troubles....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac bd ae bf fg fX ad ad cd hh bb bX bg Xf cX hb ei ib ibXadh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101010 11110 100110010 11110 100110110 11001001 10011000010 111111 10011000110 1111101 1001101101111 11011 1001111101111 110111101 10011101010 110111 100101000101010 1101110 1001100010100 0101010 100111100110 1111010 1001101010 110111 1001101010111 11111 10011010010010 1101011011 100110101100100010 111010010 100110101100100010100 11101001 100110100010 0111001 10011010110 1111 100111 11011010 10011111 11111011010 1001100010 11100110010 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, poem are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines power, fools, death are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word poems at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The New Poetry Handbook;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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