This is an analysis of the poem The Wound that begins with:
The tenth day, and they give
my mirror back. Who knows...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff bcbXff ghghhhXfhfhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 110111 101111 111011 011101 0010101 010101 1101010 011101 1011010 0100111 100111 101101 0101001 110111 1111010 0101101 111001 100111 101111 011011 100101 0110001 011001 101001 101101 100111 010101 111101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of The Wound;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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