This is an analysis of the poem Blues that begins with:
Those five or six young guys
lunched on the stoop...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXbdc eecfghfddh ijckcjXX kiaaXiXXXXX gjgXjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,8,11,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1101 1101101 101101 110111 0101100 10101 01010011 1110110 11111 10101111 110101 11101 01010101 010111110 11101010 111 110101 111101 11110111 1110101 101011 110101 10011 110101 11101101 101101101 0111 111101 100101 01001101 101111010 110110 1110 01010 111011 111101 11101 1101000 101110 0110011 010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; too, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Blues;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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