This is an analysis of the poem The Threat that begins with:
my mother pushed my sister out of the apartment door with an empty
suitcase because she kept threatening to run away my sister was sick of me...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXb XbcacbcccbXabb bbccXcaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,14,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111010001010110 11011110001011101101 100101010110011010 010110101111011110 101110110100 11000101001110101010111 0001110101111010110 110101001001000111011 011010101111001111 11101001011111101 1011110101101101111 1111110110110010101 101110100110011010 011011010100111111101 01011110010101111 100111010101110111 01001001011111101011 100101011110101011 0101110111101 111011101010101111 11000101111010111 101001110101111010101 00101111011101111011 1111101011100101110 1011101101101111111 100101010001111001111 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my, with, to, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines that is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Threat;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
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