This is an analysis of the poem What It Feels Like that begins with:
As if I've swallowed
A watermelon...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcacXbXXabXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10110 01010 1 110 10101 011 011 101 1 1 0010 1 1001 101 01
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 11 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 2
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of What It Feels Like;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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