This is an analysis of the poem First Communions that begins with:
Truly, they’re stupid, these village churches
Where fifteen ugly chicks soiling the pillars...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaX bcXcbX dbdXde fXfaXg eheheh baXXba ihihXh X XagaXb X didi aeab ghca Xhah X Xjkk caXX caca aabi l babi chch aaja jajX l hjhm cjca X Xfaf X XcXc ncja nmcm hbjb gagc X jXja XXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,6,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011010 10110110010 10101101010 0011111010 101111010 00100111010 01111001010 111001101 001010110010 1111011101 111101110 1110001101 1010011010100 00101011110 001100111100 1001111010 1111001110010 1111100111 0110011011100 1011011100 11010111110 10101100101 0110110010 1111111001 0111010101 010101010100 111101101 10111011010 1101011101 10111000010 011110110010 0101110101 11111011110 11110010100 0111001010010 1011010101 1101101010 10001011101 01100101010 110110101010 0111010110 11110101110 1 01110010100 10000101010 0100110111 01010101010 1011100010100 1011101010 1 10100110111 101001110100 101011101001 01010010101110 110101001010 1101011111 101001010110 110011100100 1000110101 110111010 1111101001 01101111010 10011101000 11101001010 11111011010 101001111010 1 1010111010001 10001011010 01001101101 100010011110 10010110 11001010100 010010101010 1001110100 111111001 1101011101 001001100100 1101010111 10111011011 10011001110 01010001010 01010111010 1 1011101010 1101101110 01001110100 110101110 1101111010 10010100111 1101110111 1111010111 11100101011 11001000100100 1011110111 1101101001100 11001010101 011001001010 010011111 1101001110 1 1101010001 0010011111 1101010011 1001111101 01110101010 00110110011 10011010011 11100011111 1 11011010110 111001101110 101101111100 11001000101110 1 11101010100 1100101010100 010100011010 00100101001 111111111 1111111101 111111111101 0011101010 1101111111 11010111 1111110111 10110101111 11111011010 001101001010 01100010110 1110001011010 111010011 111101001110 111111111 1001010010 1 101001101110 10101011000 101101010010 111101010 11100101010 1111010010110 10010111010 110101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 38
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 152
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, of, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, those, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 First Communions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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