This is an analysis of the poem The Coin Behind Your Ear that begins with:
Before you knew you owned it
it was gone, stolen, and you were a fool....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXcXdXaedcbaX Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111110 0111011001 1110100010 1011 11011101 1110100010 1110100110 1110111 0101111 100001111 1100001010 11100111 1111101 100111 111011100 101 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, it are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of The Coin Behind Your Ear;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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