Oh by Anne Sexton: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Oh that begins with:

It is snowing and death bugs me
as stubborn as insomnia....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcXXdefXdg hiehhjhakaXjXhffb acekiXcXdgcXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,17,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101111 11010100 011001 010110 1010111 00101010 11101110 101111 0101101 10010111 10101110 1000101110111 0010101 110001 0110101 1100100010 011110100 010101111 0011110 1101111 1100101 1101101 101111 1101100110 011101 11101110 101101 101001 1010101 11111 0110101 110100011 1101101110 1011011 1101011 111111 11100110 1111110010 111110001 111 110101101 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 423
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • 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; her, i, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Oh;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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