This is an analysis of the poem Salvage that begins with:
Daily the cortege of crumpled
defunct cars ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaX XaXXc dcXbb ebXfg XfdXX Xcdbb egdXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001010 011 1110010 1011 1110 010011 11100010 1001 11100 01110100 100101 110100 11010 101001 10100010 0010100 01010 010110 1110 101100 010001 0101 10110 101010000 0010100 01010000 10110 10001 100101 011001 1101010 10100 0111 1101 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Salvage;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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