This is an analysis of the poem The View From Chinchpokli that begins with:

A fouled Sun rises from behind the textile mills
As I crawl out of my nightmares and hobble...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdedfaggcgdaXfchegXiifXjiXhcXXcdafkkcbbfajbhhcXgdhXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011100010111 11110111110 001111000010 11100000100010111 100010110100110 1101010101001 01011100101010010 0011100111 01100101010101 010101101101 0100101011111 110010011010 100111001001010 11010001101 111001111110 0101010001110 11000101111 1110110101010101 000101101001110 0100100100001000101 10101000101 10100010011101100100 101010011010010 101001001010110 10010110110010 10101110111 00101001001010 10010011001 01101100101010 1111111011 010101100101010100 0010100101010100100 01111010100111 000110101010 1011011010100001 11011000100010 1001010101010101101 101111101001 010110110100101 1100100011011 10101001101010100 110011010010 111001111010 00100110111 1011110100111 1100111010010101110 10110101010011101 11101101111011 11101101100 11010111111 10100011001111 010100 01011010101001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1361
  • Average number of words per stanza: 242
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; of, i, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The View From Chinchpokli;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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