This is an analysis of the poem The Earth Falls Down that begins with:

If I could blame it all on the weather,
the snow like the cadaver's table,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXddcdaaecfcbgaahihjgefjjXdcXi X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111011010 011010010 011001010 0111101010 011001101 011101011 011101010 1010101 110110010 10110 1101011 0111010 101011 110001 0111011 010110001 10010010010 10010101110 101101 1001100 1111001101 111011 1101 11010011 10101 11100101010010 1001101011 0110011 111010 0111 11111 101010 01101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
  • Average number of words per stanza: 101
  • 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; of, man are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Earth Falls Down;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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