This is an analysis of the poem Climbing You that begins with:
I want to understand the steep thing
that climbs ladders in your throat....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXdX aedef gbbXdXXgX ecfXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,9,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011 1110011 111101 1011111 01110010 1001101 100101100 11001110 010111011 110111101 111010110 111101 0111101 101010011 0101110111 001010001 11011010 01011 11101101010 00101 011000101 111011011 101011101 011110101 111010 10111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, your are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Climbing You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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