This is an analysis of the poem Portrait Of A Motor Car that begins with:
IT'S a lean car ... a long-legged dog of a car ... a gray-ghost eagle car.
The feet of it eat the dirt of a road ... the wings of it eat the hills....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001101101001011101 01001010010100101 1001010011110011111001 000101110010101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 78 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 17
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, it, in, car are repeated.
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- summary of Portrait Of A Motor Car;
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- idea of the verse;
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