This is an analysis of the poem Dr. Sigmund Freud Discovers The Sea Shell that begins with:
Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered
Figuring what anything is for:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cdXc cca cdX c Xaad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,3,3,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110010 100110101 0110100111 11010101110 111100101110 1101010011 1101111101 11010001110110 1110010001 11010000110 101011101 11011101011 1011000101 10110100110 101110001 1101000111 1011010111 01011001001 11110011 11 0111011011 1001001101 11001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; she, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, why are repeated.
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