This is an analysis of the poem The Book With Four Backs that begins with:
I put our books face to face
so they could talk....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba cd XX bX ce dffee ceXde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,2,2,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1111 110011 1111101 1111 1111000101 1111010 110101 1111 1101110111 11111101 0111 1111111 11010011 1101010110 1111110101 110100110101 11011010 010100011011 0101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, the 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 The Book With Four Backs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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