This is an analysis of the poem We Real Cool that begins with:
The Pool Players.
Seven at the Golden Shovel....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aa aa aa aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110 10101010 1111 111 111 111 111 111 111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 32
- Average number of words per stanza: 6
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 15 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines we is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word we at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of We Real Cool;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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