This is an analysis of the poem Pencils that begins with:
telling where the wind comes from
open a story....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa bba bCdC XXXbdCbeXdXdXeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,4,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110 10010 10 101011 1010 11010 1001 10101110 1001 101000010 11010101 0110101 111101 101110 1001 10110110 10001001 1100101 10010010 10010111 1111001010010 111111001 0010111 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 658
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; of is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Pencils;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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