This is an analysis of the poem Earthquakes that begins with:
So many so small go on day and night
under your feet you barely notice....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab aX XX ca da bX Xe eX aX cX bb dd db XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111111 101111010 01111110001010 1010101010111 1110101010 1111111010 110111 10110010101 101111011011010 1101011 1111001001011 11111001100 10101010111111 11011 1111011 10101110101 10111011 01001010101 1111110101 1110110111 11010110 1001010011101 10101011 01011101 01111 101001011 10100111011 1111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; sand, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you're is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sand is repeated).
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- summary of Earthquakes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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