This is an analysis of the poem Obsolescent that begins with:
Bending over like this to get my hands empty
Rummaging through the white trashcans out back...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXaX aaa Xaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101010011110 1001011011 001010110101 10011101111 10011111101 010011111100 11110100101 111101110 110010101011 11011111111 01000101010 111011101100 10101100111 0101111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Obsolescent;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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