This is an analysis of the poem In Rubble that begins with:
Right after the bomb, even before the ceiling
And walls and floor are rearranging ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdaefdgefheXdidXdaajfXfhfdiebacdXjgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110011001010 111111010 11010001001 11111110 01010101001 0111100 01111011101 1001110101 011110111 111011101 11111111010 1011111 110011101 1010000111 00100111 1111101010 10111101 011010101101 11110101000 11110011110 010010111010 01111001100 10110101110 1101101101 01111111010 0111010110 0111100101 001110100111 1100110111110 1011010101 010010111001 0010111001 0011101110010 001101101110 1111110101 01011011 1101111010110 111100101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1750
- Average number of words per stanza: 293
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, or, your, of, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, to, or, of are repeated.
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- summary of In Rubble;
- central theme;
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