This is an analysis of the poem Still Life that begins with:
COOL your heels on the rail of an observation car.
Let the engineer open her up for ninety miles an hour....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbX cXXccaXbbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010110101 10101100111010110 10010111101111110111001 01101110101010011010111 0111011111011011110111 010000100110101010110100001000011110111101100 1011 0110100101110 10001010101 0011010101 10110101110 00111010010 101000110 01010011011 1111010100111 101011101111 10101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 509
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, many are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eye, me are repeated).
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- summary of Still Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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