This is an analysis of the poem The Sentence that begins with:
And the stone word fell
On my still-living breast....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX Xabb XXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 111101 1011110 101011 01111101 1111001111 1111101 1110101 01101010 01010011110 10111110 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, to, must are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of The Sentence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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