This is an analysis of the poem The Inventory Of Goodbye that begins with:
I have a pack of letters,
I have a pack of memories....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdefaXeXf XgdbhcXeaibXhXaggXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 11010100 11110101 1110101110 11100010010 110100111111 0110010111101 011010101011 110111001 11001011001111 11010011010110 101101 1101011 10101101 10101010 11110101 1101010110100 11011011 11010100110110 101101011111 0010110101110 100100101001001 1010111001 10010110100110 00100111111010 11011100010 11100001110101 01101010110 10111110101101 0011001 100100001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 670
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, blessing, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, no are repeated.
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- summary of The Inventory Of Goodbye;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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