This is an analysis of the poem Lonely that begins with:
The walls have seemed to say to me
Where have the sticky fingers gone ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd abaXeeee afafgege ababhdhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 11010101 11111101 11110101 01110101 11110111 101111001 11111101 01110101 11111101 11000101 11010101 01111101 11010111 11010111 111101001 00111111 10010111 11111111 11010101 110011111 11011101 11010110 01011001 011100101 01010101 11110101 11010101 11011111 01110111 11010101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, have, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Lonely;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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