This is an analysis of the poem Lifeguard Clinging To A Steeple that begins with:
Why are all the survivors of the needle's eye
nude, as if their lifethread had disrobed...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaba XXcc cabXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 111001000101 11011001100 10110111 1010110001 101001111 110111010 01001011010 11101011 001010111111 1011101011 11010111101 11001110101 01100010111 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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- summary of Lifeguard Clinging To A Steeple;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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