This is an analysis of the poem Grass that begins with:
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAX XXAXbXXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111001101 100101111 11011101 11011100 1101110110 100101111 10101010010010 1100 1111 1101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Grass;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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