This is an analysis of the poem Hunger that begins with:
I've been a hopeless sinner, but I understand a
saint,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacdd eXecffXdbbdcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010111010 1 110101111 10111 101010101010 101 010100101010101 11010101110101 1111111011 10101 10101010101 0101 001000101000101 1101110111010 1 001000101011101 11101111001 1111 001000101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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; tell is 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 Hunger;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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