This is an analysis of the poem Self-Portrait In Shoulder Stand that begins with:
Old bag of bones
upside down,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXcb d XX e e b abd bXfbf cggab bd BeBg XgfXaX ceXXdB dffgheaef fhfbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,2,1,1,1,3,5,5,2,4,6,6,9,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 111 111101 0100 01010 0101101 0101 110101 1 10101 1010 1000101 11010 111 101 101100 1111 101010 1101 1101010 01111 01111 11000 0100101011 110111 111 10111 11011 10111 110100 1010 1001010 1111 10101 1001010 1010 010100 0101 1111 01010 0101 111 110011 11001111 01 1001100101 01001 100111 1011010 0001 110101 111101 1101 11 1001 0001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the, behind, defying, you are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines death is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word death at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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