This is an analysis of the poem Good Carpenters that begins with:
I mourn a dead friend, like myself, a good carpenter.
-Pablo Neruda about César Vallejo...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bcdXefghXb XdXfXXg begdgbgghhddgih cahdge iicXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,7,15,6,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111100100 10010011010 11101 10111 1010 1101101 10110 101010 100101 101 01011 1001111 1110111 01110 111001 001 111100 1010101 110110 1101111 010101 101 01101 101 011 010 011 11111111 101 01010 1010101 1100110010 110101001 1101010001 110101 11010 1100110101 1111 0010011 1111110101 111101 1111 1101110101 11011110010 1111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, we, with, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we, our 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.
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- summary of Good Carpenters;
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- idea of the verse;
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