This is an analysis of the poem Artificer that begins with:
Burning, he walks in the stream of flickering letters, clarinets,
machines throbbing quicker than the heart, lopped-off heads, silk...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX a bc c dcXbXe XdbXXcecca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,2,1,6,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001010010100 0110101011111 1001111001 1100100111 01011110101000101 1 1111011011111 1101010100110100 101 1011101010011100 10010101010011001 01 0001011100111 110101011111 1001111011001 111110110101 100111001011100010 01101011101000 110111101111010 11001011110010 101101010010000101 10 10110101011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, his, in are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Artificer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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