This is an analysis of the poem Mud that begins with:
This war's a waste of slurry, and its at-
mosphere is mud, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdbc debfXef ccghihih jaikXak Xabgab jjjgjXj ibfibf laXXaah Xdbjfdj iamiam ilXXalXc Xbmebbie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,7,6,7,6,7,7,6,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010101 1001 1010101110 1 10100010101010 1 01001110101 11111010 1011101 1011010111 00 01101011011 1111 10100110001 101010100010 101 0011101010 1 1011001010 10001 1110111010 1 1111110001 10001 1110101000 1 10101010101 0101 10101010101 1001010110110 101 001001010001 1010101000100 11 10101110001 10100010101 0101 10101010001 1110101000 10001 111110101 11 1110101010 010101 10100010101 10101001010 10001 111000101001 1010101010 10101 10101010101 111010111101 1001 1110101110 1 1010101000100 1 10101111 101 0011101111 11101 10101010011 0111101010 10101 001010111001 1011101010 10101 10101010111 1010111010 10101 1010111010 1 1110101011 10101 0110101110 1 1110111110 10111 001010111 11 11101110 1010001 101100010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you are repeated.
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- summary of Mud;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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