This is an analysis of the poem Marginalia that begins with:
Sometimes the notes are ferocious,
skirmishes against the author...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefgh XXiijjXf dacaXk lldfXal cXeh felhc XliXcbl lmi fdgXbfmehhc lkkdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,6,7,4,5,7,3,11,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011010 10001010 100101001001 01011 011111111 1001101010 1101 11101111100011 10101111010 1001111 1101 101011010110 111010 1000101010111 1110010 01101010010100100 101110 10011011011 0101001 11100100100100 01010100100 1011101010010010 111111001010 1100111 1000011 01101110 1110111 11100110101 1101011 1011100100010 01101010110100 0010011 001011110 1111010100111 1110101001 1011101111010 110100011 1010100101 10101011100 10010100010 10101010100 01101110 101110101011 01001100100010 1010110101 1111110010 11011111 10001100100 101110110 01110011010 1100010010001 1110010110 11110 111010111 101101010110101 111011 1101100110 1101101010111 111111 0110101 1100100110 101001111 111101 100110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; ' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, how are repeated.
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- summary of Marginalia;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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