This is an analysis of the poem Blood & Honey that begins with:
I began by loving women
& the love turned...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc daaefgac XXXbc abgX hiejad kkfggbg aAjjgjgjach XAecdAgX ccXXbl aAmagell nambhncjnbXanbi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,5,4,6,7,11,8,6,8,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 011 0100 110010 11010 111 010011 110011 11100 01010 011100 011010 11010 101001001 101100101 101001 1010 11001001 11010 11111 0111001 1101010 1011011 0101 101010 1010 11011010 111 110111 110011 0101 010011 1110 111010 11010 10110101 1001 11110 10011 1101 10001 1111 11110 1101 111010 1010 1010 100100 11010 1010 1010 0101001 1001 11 1011 011 11110 111 1101 11010 1011 0111010 101110 11110010 111111 1101001 0110100 11101 011111 111 01111 0101111 01010011 0101 111010 011 1010 10110010 11101 10100010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bitterness at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Blood & Honey;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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