This is an analysis of the poem Paper Cuts that begins with:
Endless duplication of lives and objects....
-Theodore Roethke...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX baccXdb bXcead bbbbbX fcXbc bbfca gbbX eagXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,7,6,6,5,5,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001110 1011 111001001001010 010010000100 1100101011110 1010100100 0100100100 010001001 0101 110010101 11110110111 101010 11101110 11010 101111 1100101010 010101010 01010010100 01010101 11111001010 00011 111100010101 10001010001010 1111010001101 1010101 001010 111011101110 101010 11101011 100101110 11001001 1110111101 11110100010100 1111001001010 1111000101 111101011101 111101010101 1100100111 1110011111101 11100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, have, i, you, instead, bring are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, have, i 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 Paper Cuts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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