This is an analysis of the poem Locked that begins with:
Children tattooed, pierced and studded, dreadlocked;
parents panicked, indecisive, deadlocked....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa aa Xa Xa Xa Xa Xa Xa Xa Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011110100 1010101011 100101111011 1101101010111 101011111 1110101010111 10010111011 111111111111 10111111101 010111111011 110010010111 110101111011 1011111110 11011001011 111101010110 1011110101 01011101011 0100101111111 101111111001 011110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you, have, their are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word locked at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Locked;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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