This is an analysis of the poem Mortal Shower that begins with:
I met my butt in a Pittsburgh
hotel room. My face...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbX cdeX aabf bfb cdgX hXcd diceebi Xfficbj edecee Xg dfjbddie eXjdch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,3,4,4,7,7,6,2,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110010 01111 11111 111111 11001011 11110101 01101010 11 11111 00111111 1111 11111010 10111 11010 10111 1010101 1110 0101101101 110 111010010 010101110 010111 1111101 00101111 1111 01010111010 101101 1010110 01011 111011 111011010 1001110110 11110 11 1111111 10111 101100011 11111 01010101 1011110 0111 010 1010101 0101101 1000001001 01001 100 10111 110001 011011010 011 1001101 11 110101 110101 0001001 11011 101 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, at, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word dies is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines face, fog, grandmother are repeated).
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- summary of Mortal Shower;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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