This is an analysis of the poem Memento that begins with:
Scattered through the ragtaggle underbrush starting to show green shoots
lie the dark remains of rail sleepers napping now beside the rusted-out...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aX aa XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101100111 1010101101010101011 00101111111010110101 010010100011011110111 101111101001010101 101100011100111101 1100110111101010101 111111011110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 78 (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, and are repeated.
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- summary of Memento;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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