This is an analysis of the poem Making Love To Concrete that begins with:
An upright abutment in the mouth
of the Willis Avenue bridge...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcdefb dghgidig dbheejXXXXibaeXefehXjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100001 00101011 011010010 1010110100 11011010 10111010 1011011 1001100 11011010 0110110 10101111 01110010 1011 11011010 011001 101110 011010 111010010 11001111 0101011111 11110111 111110010 11101111 1100101 1011011000 1111011001 1110111 001011010 001001 10110011011 10101 1101110 01000101 11110 010101 010101100 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 37
- 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; you is repeated.
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- summary of Making Love To Concrete;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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