This is an analysis of the poem Losers that begins with:
IF I should pass the tomb of Jonah
I would stop there and sit for awhile;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX bXX XXbX cacc ccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101010 111111101 011110111001 11101101 01101001010 11100111 11110001110 111111011110 11101010111 110101111 10011101001 101101010000 1101111101 11111101 101011111 1111101 11111111101 11111111 1110101010 111100110111 00101101011 100001001001 11111101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 966
- Average number of words per stanza: 194
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Losers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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