This is an analysis of the poem Totem that begins with:
All Souls' over, the roast seeds eaten, I set
on a backporch post our sculpted pumpkin ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdadXeeabfabXefgcfbXfhijaXjiehXXfeiabedgifkeXafbXkad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100111011 1010111010 10010111010 111010011 101010101 001110101101 10010110 011110010 11010011011 1011110010101 1110011101 01110101 110101010 0010111101 000101110101 011101011 11110111001 0100010110011 10010100110 01010001101 1110100101 101001111 0100101010 10110101 0111 0110010100 10100111111 10011001010 1010011100 0110011001 111100101 00100111010101 1101111100 00100011001 101011100001 010101101 0001000 11010111 00001100011 0100101110110 110101111 011000111010 0110010011011 1001010011010 1110010010 10110001101101 001111101 10111101111 111010110 11110011010 1001101111 0101010011 0111010010101 1100101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2493
- Average number of words per stanza: 422
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word its is repeated.
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- summary of Totem;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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