This is an analysis of the poem Big Hair that begins with:
Ithaca, October 1993: Jorie went on a lingerie
tear, wanting to look like a moll...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcd dacbde eddaXc ccbXad dcacXb bXdcXaXbdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001011110101 11001101 001010100100111 11111101011001 11111011010 1010100101101 1111111101111 0100011010101 1011010010 10111010100011 10111010101010001001 111101011101 110101101 110100101 1111110101 111110100101 1011111010 111101110000110 0110100101101010 10101011010101 1011000111011 10111010100 1111101101 1110010110101 1111111101001 111011010 111000111101101 01010101000111011 1011000011101000 0101100011001 101001110101 01111001010 100101100011 101010111010 110010101010 0100010110100101 001100101001101 1001001001 1001010110100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, that, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she'd is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines written, hair are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.
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- summary of Big Hair;
- central theme;
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