This is an analysis of the poem Shattered that begins with:
My dreams shattered in the tense stillness
as endless threats and blows clothe my form...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaabcXadeaXbabXcXbXdeXaeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000110 110111111 1101000101 111010110 11110010 101101010 111101000101 11110101110 110100100 1111010 1010111010 11111110 10001001110100 010001101 11100010 01110100 1001111110 001000101 1010001 11101011 111101001 1111100100 111101 110101011 111111110 10111111 101001 10
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 959
- Average number of words per stanza: 173
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
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- summary of Shattered;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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