This is an analysis of the poem Sestina that begins with:
for Jim Cummins
In Iowa, Jim dreamed that Della Street was Anne Sexton's...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XXbacXc acdccb ccccbcd ddacXcXX cdcccbX cXcdXc cXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,6,7,8,7,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 01001111011110 111010110100000100 010101100101101101 11010 001001010111100 10100100011001010 111111101011001 1010110010011001 100100011011110 11101011011101 11000101100110 10101111011100 101010110110111100 11101010111101 1111101110101 11100111101111100 0101100101001110 101001111110101 10 10111010011010101 111101001001001101 1111010010010011010 1101001011111101 110 11011111110011010 01001 11111111011011 01010010011000 101101001001100 11011110011101 111010101001110 11010101011010 1101101011111001 01110101101100111011 100 1011010010110 11101000111011000 01101001010111001 1011011110101 1001011001010 101010110110110 001111101101110 11110011111000010 1011 11110011001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word donna at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bell, berrigan, whitman, sexton are repeated).
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- summary of Sestina;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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