This is an analysis of the poem Lobster that begins with:
A shoe with legs,
a stone dropped from heaven, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXaXXcXXXXcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 011010 11010101 100111011 0101011111 011000101011 1001101111 111101010101 11110111001 111101011 0001010110 1001101001 100100100 10100 1101001110 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, he, somewhere, and are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Lobster;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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