This is an analysis of the poem Suicide Off Egg Rock that begins with:
Behind him the hotdogs split and drizzled
On the public grills, and the ochreous salt flats,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXcddcXbaX XXeXXfe bXeXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111110 10101101011 111001111 01010010010 10110001010 1101010010 110110100 101100101 11111110 01011011010 1011001001 01010010010 10011011010 1100101111 010100110 0010111010 110010110100 1101010100 01001101010 101101110 1011001010 111110110 1111100010 00101101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word everything is repeated.
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- summary of Suicide Off Egg Rock;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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