This is an analysis of the poem Dropping The Euphemism that begins with:
He has five children, I’m papa
to a hundred pencils....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab acX deb Xfb fdb gff daa bcX cge bbf dhg hXX icf Xdg fcX afa gcd idX gXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 001010 1101110 00101 10011 111110100 001010111 110111 010110111 001111 0011 100010110 0111 110011101 01101 1111011 11101 0101111 1111111 10110111 11101 010100111 1010010 111 010101 011101101 1101001 111101 1101011 1010111 0011101 101010 0011011 110101 0101010101 01011011 10011010 0111101 101110 1111010 010011110 00101011 01111101 1001110 01011010 1010001100 1101 001010110 111111 111110101 00101 0111110 01010111 101001110 1011101 101001 011011
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; at, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines brown is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Dropping The Euphemism;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Bob Hicok
- Analysis of An Old Story
- Analysis of After Working Sixty Hours Again For What Reason
- Analysis of O My Pa-Pa
