This is an analysis of the poem Music Swims Back To Me that begins with:
Wait Mister. Which way is home?
They turned the light out...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadaefeg XdgXeecXcebefb aeXXXegfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,14,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101 11011 1010100010 11111001 1101010 0100100100 1111101101 11110111 01111 00101010101 0100010110 11011110 110110010 1011001 100101 101111 11001010 0100111 0101010010 100101001 11111 10101011 0010001 11010101 111001111 111110101 1010110001 1011010 1111111 0101101 011111010 11101 10
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; la, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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More information about poems by Anne Sexton
- Analysis of A Curse Against Elegies
- Analysis of Barefoot
- Analysis of Admonitions To A Special Person
