This is an analysis of the poem Dissonance that begins with:
The harsh, brief sob of broken horns; the sound
Of hammers, on some clanging sepulcher;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaaXXa bcddbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010101 0101110100 1001010100 11011100101 1001110101 0111010101 0101010101 1101010001 1110110111 1101110101 01000100101 11000100101 0101010111 01010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
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- summary of Dissonance;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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