This is an analysis of the poem The Shoelace that begins with:
a woman, a
tire that’s flat, a...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcXadeafdgahiheXXjfghkfaahhlgmanelhngneehcgigXghhggcX eeigXghX mjffXdXdbbbnfe hgnkahXcbj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,8,14,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100 10110 010 01010101 11111 11100 11010 11 010111 10100 11111011 1011100101 10001001001100 110100 11 101001 101111 0111 0101 01101000 11110110 111111 101110 1011010 1101100 10011001011 101110 10110 11101 1111 01110111 01011110100 10 11101010 101 11011101011011 111 101111010 1 101010 10 101111 011011011 01010 1011 111 010 11011111011 1101011 11 1011111 10101110 1010111 111010 110 100 1100 1010111011 1111000 11 110101011 1010011010 100101011 010110101 100 111011110 1101 101 1011101 1101 1 110110101001 1111111 11111 1011001011 101101010 10101011 1 011011 1011010110 111101 1 100 11 1010 11 110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 414
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 87
- 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; or, s, and, light, no, hair, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a, gas, no are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Shoelace;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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