This is an analysis of the poem Cleaning The Furnace that begins with:
Last night Pa said to Ma: 'My dear, it's gettin' on to fall,
It's time I did a little job I do not like at all....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcX ddXXcX aaeedX ffggbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110111010101 01100101111111 111111010100101 01010101111111 11010101111111 11010111110101 11010111010111 11100101110101 11000101011111 1010101011100100 11110101111111 111010101010001 111010100010101 101010101111101 111010101110101 111110101110101 111110101111111 11010100110101 111100101010001 101000111110101 101000111010001 111011110111101 111011101111111 101100101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, an', he, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Cleaning The Furnace;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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