This is an analysis of the poem Tender Buttons [a Box] that begins with:
A BOX.
A large box is handily made of what is necessary to replace any substance. Suppose an example is necessary, the plainer it is made the more... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X a X X a aXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 01101001010101000110100110100101001000101101011101010110001 010101100101001010101111010100110 0101010101010111001011001111111000100101010011101001110100110011101101010100100100101101100100100111010101101101000100111010 10110001011101010101001111100001010110101111100 110001100011001010010110111010110110111001101110110110101010 10011110101101011111100101110011001001010110110 101101011010101010011000010011001101110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 197 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 38
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, necessary, box, and, that, there, it, have, made, different, table, on, one, be, than, cigarettes, left, color, why are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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